"The point is to show its possible to write functional, good looking PHP"
If you say curly braces and type prefixes can ever be pretty... ;-)
Lisp is not just a collection of neat ideas - it's a cohesive whole more or less found around those neat ideas. It's damn hard to take out those ideas and to put them in a language that was not designed around them without corrupting them beyond recognition.
And mind you I label myself as a Python enthusiast, not a Lisper. But I know what my tools can and what my tools can't do.
If you say curly braces and type prefixes can ever be pretty... ;-)
Lisp is not just a collection of neat ideas - it's a cohesive whole more or less found around those neat ideas. It's damn hard to take out those ideas and to put them in a language that was not designed around them without corrupting them beyond recognition.
And mind you I label myself as a Python enthusiast, not a Lisper. But I know what my tools can and what my tools can't do.