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A little too baroque. http://worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/ has better regularity

During ILC 2014 in Montréal, someone presented the emotional lisp joke. It was a lisp where ( was replaced with (-: and ) was replaced with :-). At a second iteration of the joke, these were replaced with emoji.

I wonder if emojilisp was inspired by this joke.

This was Didier Verna with "Smilisp": http://www.didierverna.net/blog/index.php?post/2009/04/01/%3...

I think it's just something people will end up with when thinking about S-Expressions.

I remember when I was considering using Vim's conceal[1] feature to replace the # in Clojure lambda reader macros, then I joked about replacing it with some nonsensical emoji instead. That evolved into "Why not write all of Lisp with Emoji?" and wrote some joke examples in a Hangout.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who thought this would be amusing to make.

[1]: Like this: http://demonastery.org/2012/07/lambda-conceal-in-vim/

But the cop emoji should be 'and' not 'or'! It's a guard, after all.

http://www.emojilisp.com/prog/m55YcVcbfUBFXf4S

Why does it say the cdr of (list 1 2 3 4 5) is 5, instead of (2 3 4 5)?

I'm not sure why most languages don't allow arbitrary unicode as identifiers. It would be quite useful for math-oriented programming.

car and cdr emojis are very nice

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