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That makes me think you might've forgotten what it's like to be a beginner.

Let's put things in perspective: the parser bit of putting together your own lisp is by far the easiest task of all.

Complaining that parsing lisp is hard to a beginner but everything else is accessible makes no sense at all. I mean, a parser for s-expressions requires what? Five or six terminal tokens and three or four non-terminal tokens? That's less than 50loc.

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