The story: I had a thought, that perhaps Math becomes simpler

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The story: I had a thought, that perhaps Math becomes simpler

to understand when you invent it, rather than trying to learn it. And that people who invented Math must've been more proficient in Math than people who learn what they invented.

I decided to learn Lisp, but I wasn't feeling like learning. So, instead, I decided to implement my own Lisp, using JSON arrays and strings for source code, for simplicity.

Learning can be boring, problem solving is always interesting!

And, perhaps I'll understand it better when I'll try to invent it myself. I'll know why some things have to be the way they are.

So, I had like 40 minutes of free time before my English lesson? lecture? excercises? I don't know the proper terms for college in English. I pulled out a piece of paper, a pen, and started designing.

I must have looked a little bit like a mad man, but so does look anyone who pursues an unusual idea. Especially, cause I didn't finish it before English started, and I couldn't stop.

It felt great when I later was reading some stuff about Lisp, Scheme, Clojure, and I discovered functions and macros which solved the exact problems I solved on paper, having the exact same signature, and sometimes even the same name.

I ended up not writing any code. I didn't need it for my learning.

And that's how I taught myself some Lisp.