Comment by GMoromisato

2 days ago

Maybe machine language is the formless chaos and Lisp is the purest manifestation of order. All other languages are points in between.

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GMoromisato

That makes no sense without specifying what Lisp actually is.

S-expressions are a generic tree, that's not a language, that's just syntax.

Is it CL, Clojure, scheme?

Like these don't even share a basic object model, it's like getting the AST of Haskell and C and then talking about how good that AST is.

See Cardelli's breakdown in his famous article "Typeful programming":

Page 52 perhaps.