In writing LParen , a Lisp interpreter, the single Nolan-esque mind-bending idea for me has been implementing code execution. I can write a function, which itself is just a data structure, and execute it in the interpreter as a general computation. Characters, symbols, and numbers which previously used to only mean something now do something.

Take these ASCII characters which claim to compute the fibonacci number sequence. It’s only by galactic chance that when these characters are passed …

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Programming languages provide abstractions which allow the expression of logic. This gives us, the Alchemist programmer, the ability to recite a few incantations on our keyboards and imbue the programs we are writing with the apparent ability to make decisions. Without logic computer programs would be constructed to do a single thing, and recursion and loops would act as black holes.

In this blog we add a boolean data type and some common logical control operators.