What the author did is cool in a social sense; lispers go on and on about homoiconicity, which here means that the original lisp code is data. The author uses this property by reading this code/data and transforming it into text, that represents syntax-full code. It is "cool" because it demonstrates the value of homoiconicity.
However; it's not cool in a technical sense. The result is not homoiconic any more. Code that had a cool property has been turned into code that does not, and the result looks like every other syntax-full blub language. The result destroys value.
However; it's not cool in a technical sense. The result is not homoiconic any more. Code that had a cool property has been turned into code that does not, and the result looks like every other syntax-full blub language. The result destroys value.