hebigo VS wenyan

The Lissp transpiler incrementally compiles and executes each top-level form to Python. It needs to do this in case there's a macro definition that might affect the compilation of a subsequent form. If it's only executing definitions, this is harmless, but if you want to precompile the main module, it needs the guard, or the side effects will happen too.

If you want Python to be as customizable as Lissp, check out Hissp (and Hebigo).

Python's lambdas can have as many lines as you want. Just wrap parens around it. Hissp uses this form as a compilation target. Its REPL shows the Python compilation. Play around with it til you get it: https://github.com/gilch/hissp

The original Lisp's S-expression syntax was just supposed to be an intermediate language used by the compiler when processing the real language based on M-expressions, which kind of never took off. Numerous alternatives to S-expressions have been proposed, and some retain homoiconicity, another feature diagnostic of a Lisp (and one that ECMAScript lacks). For example, see Hebigo's readme, which shows a direct correspondence between its Python-like syntax and that of Hissp's default reader (Lissp), which uses the S-expressions. Julia can also be written in S-expressions, but this usually only used in macro definitions.

I think LoL is too CL-specific. If you know both languages first, you can pretty much translate, but since they'd be trying to learn Lisp in the first place, this is a bad idea.

On the other hand, [Hissp][1] has a pretty good tutorial for anyone coming from a Python background.

[1]: https://github.com/gilch/hissp

Hebigo: a whitespaceLisp isomorphic to Hissp that looks like Python.

related for those who are interested in DSL design:

- an ancient Chinese programming language: https://wy-lang.org/

- I am also building an synth/audio graph inspired language: https://glicol.org/

& classical chinese!

It's written in wenyang-lang, a programming language based on Classical Chinese: https://wy-lang.org/

Previously featured on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22213406

Wenyan-lang uses classical Chinese. It's beautiful, take a look at the repo.

Since Classical Chinese is ancestral to kanji, you might be interested in https://wy-lang.org/

For ridiculously-specialist poetry-writing software, the maker of that pretty Classical Chinese programming language ( https://wy-lang.org/ ) people were talking about had also previously made an editor for Tang-era Chinese poetry - https://github.com/LingDong-/cope , which keeps track of tone patterns and rhymes.

I hear the Wenyan dialect is pretty interesting. Check out this example of Fizzbuzz.

Why use mandarin when you can use the programming language of ancient scholars: https://wy-lang.org/

well, you can always program in wenyan: https://github.com/wenyan-lang/wenyan

But seriously, it's 2021. We are no longer slave to ASCII, or even English.

Most of the newer math oriented langs have heavy use of unicode (julia, agda, lean, etc).