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Great example of building something fun not because we should but because we can :)

My take on "Lisp in Julia" using deprecated-but-still-parseable syntax instead of a string macro: https://github.com/christopher-dG/jlisp

I should probably put some examples in the readme.

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That hidden Julia s-expression syntax helped me start to understand metaprogramming in Julia. Along the way I found that it takes surprisingly few lines of code to turn the normal Julia repl into a more-or-less working Julia-lisp repl: https://gist.github.com/brenhinkeller/44051118c2f9d18b26dc76...

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