On Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 12:07:45 AM UTC-8, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > I would not be too surprised if someone had written a Lisp interpreter > in Python, representing Lisp code as stings :-)
There is a certain universality in strings, given that humans read and write strings of characters. And even speech consists of strings of phonemes. There is a long history of string-oriented programming languages going back to SNOBOL. I assume that at least one person wrote a simple lisp system in SNOBOL. If I recall correctly, there was some kind of parenthesis-balancing feature in SNOBOL IV. There is also a long history of people writing programs based on a bad idea, poorly designed, and destined to be discarded. I've done some of that myself. RJF -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
