michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equations-of-software

but this was fun

okay i gotta go

...

but it's fun to think about

i don't know

what's the point

wait

but you get the point

okay that's a bad analogy

it's the building blocks of language

but it's not just squiggles

the alphabet is just a bunch of squiggles

it's like saying

i mean

and somehow that's genius

a bunch of parentheses

lisp is just

so like

i'll look it up later

never mind

what even is a macro

but i get that they're cool

i don't get macros

so cool

and that's just

lisp macros are just code that writes code

okay but like

but it's not the same

in python you can eval strings

and that's why it's special