Swift's Abstract Syntax Tree
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Swift's Abstract Syntax Tree
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#2That looks like lisp?
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#3That looks like lisp?
Programming in lisp is basically manipulating the ast.
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#4After learning lisp, I just feel like every other language is a weird set of macros. Looking at this AST confirms that.
Wish I could live the rest of my life in Sexp-land.
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#5That looks like lisp?
It's because Lisp is basically an abstract syntax tree.
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#6That looks like lisp?
You are right! Lisp is homoiconic which basically means that the language mirrors the AST https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity
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#7It would be useful to add a command line tool with a linq/jquery-like syntax over that.
I've discovered few weeks ago the same feature (a bit hidden) in GCC:
gcc -fdump-translation-unit=ast.txt file.c
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#8After learning lisp, I just feel like every other language is a weird set of macros. Looking at this AST confirms that. Wish I could live the rest of my life in Sexp-land.
There is other interesting homoiconic languages like Rebol (brackets instead of parens and more whitespaces).
I could add a stack-based language like Factor too.
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#9After learning lisp, I just feel like every other language is a weird set of macros. Looking at this AST confirms that. Wish I could live the rest of my life in Sexp-land.
Boy do I know how you feel. So many things that used to seem interesting and deep to me (often involving syntax or parsing or data formats) now feel like busywork and noise. Or like I'm visiting a land where everyone wears extra layers of heavy, stiff clothing and speaks in long circumlocutions. I feel claustrophobic and can't wait to get back to Sexp-land where I can breathe.
Some of it's just habit, of course, but the lightness and simplicity also seem objective to me. It becomes hard to understand why everyone else keeps jumping through all those pointless hoops, you get ever more impatient and irritable with it all, and one day you fall prey to full smugweeniness.