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Re:How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010) by sitkack on Saturday May 31, 2014 @04:29PM (#7827157)
I don't understand how that wouldn't qualify as a Lisp? Does it matter what the level below is implemented out of?
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Re:How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010) by agentultra on Monday June 02, 2014 @10:23AM (#7833612)
Lisp is more than just parenthesis, just as Python is more than just whitespace-delimited blocks of text.

We can do some neat tricks by transforming a parenthetical syntax to Python AST that may even seem like Lisp some of the time... but the semantics are and will always be Python without stretching truth and logic a little.

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