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The Roots of Lisp

In this article we talk about the Lisp operators and how they make up into a powerful API, this paradigm consists of some built in functions that intend to make things easier, however, talking about the power of language as many things that language can become, list processing is very a powerful tool in the structure and syntax of Lisp given by the fact that everything in this paradigm is achieved by the processing of lists.
Lisp programs are composed by something called s-expressions, which stands for symbolic expressions which are defined recursively, and consists of either a single “component” which is called “atom” in the strict definition, or it can also be a list, which can correspondingly be some other symbolic expressions.
The main idea in this article rounds around the idea of lisp being so innovative for its time that it allowed to visualize the solutions for some problems in a completely different angle, which makes the process much more understandable,  compared to other programming standards that  try  to organize the abstraction in a way it becomes clunkier the more complex the coded solution becomes. However in Lisp we can evaluate whatever we want as long as it belongs to a language (kind of the way Turing’s machines worked)
In my opinion the article is meaningful because it marks the differentiation between the conceptions of functional programming and makes the reader (as long as he or she is familiarized with the needed baggage) find all the contrasts within all the programming paradigms that a reader like me have used from time to time. In a way that even when you can conceive most of the advantages of functional programming, it’s still being quite abstract that still a bit difficult to help others to also conceive them, that you end up understanding and defining them via a lot of practice.

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