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Re:Lisp is Abstract Syntax by dimovich on Thursday April 17, 2014 @05:30PM (#7606528)
We're hard-wired for Lisp. Broca's area 44,45 and 47 are responsible for processing hierarchical structures.[1] That's why it's so easy to reason about Lisp code.

[1] http://www.letras.ufrj.br/poslinguistica/recursion/papers/17...

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Re:Lisp is Abstract Syntax by thinkpad20 on Thursday April 17, 2014 @05:34PM (#7606553)
I don't see what that specifically has to do with Lisp. Virtually every programming language in use has a recursive hierarchical structure.
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Re:Lisp is Abstract Syntax by wonderzombie on Thursday April 17, 2014 @08:12PM (#7607313)
The difference is that you end up with (e.g.) https://cs50.harvard.edu/resources/cppreference.com/operator... versus the AST being integral to the language itself.
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Re:Lisp is Abstract Syntax by dimovich on Thursday April 17, 2014 @05:59PM (#7606718)
The code itself is hierarchical in nature.
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