Comment by matheusmoreira

Yeah, I didn't get it either until I implemented my own lisp.

> the difficult thing I’ve found over the years is that Lisp is sort of unexplainable

I've found that getting rid of the parentheses helps.

  f(x)
  (f x)
  ["f", "x"]

  (print (< 10 20))
  ["print", ["<", 10, 20]]

Lisp code is just normal Python lists which get evaluated by an interpreter function. Like this:

  code = ["print", ["<", 10, 20]]

  def eval(code):
      # magic

  eval(code)
  True

Filling out that eval function is a great way to learn lisp.

These articles are very good and accessible:

https://www.norvig.com/lispy.html

https://norvig.com/lispy2.html