miniblog.

A really nice explanation of lisp semantics, using userland code! For example, you can define let in terms of let* and vice versa.

@RenewedRebecca That's correct, but I was thinking that offering threading to a user might make them more tolerant of a slow interpreter. For example, if I have an AST walker but provide Clojure semantics, users can hopefully get a big speedup by using all the cores in their application.

On teaching Haskell, and which parts of the semantics are tricky for newcomers: https://ciobaca.substack.com/p/pedagogical-downsides-of-haskell