A Lisp program that writes a Lisp program really just needs to produce a list of (nested lists) of tokens. A JavaScript program that writes a javascript program needs to generate a string that is syntactically valid JavaScript code. That is a much bigger task than just constructing a (nested) list.
Because Lisp syntax is so much simpler than that of JavaScript etc. it is much easier to avoid errors when generating code. In JavaScript you can use JSON to generate data, but JSON can not carry functions around.
I think this idea makes a lot sense. Instead of making the LLM generate JSON or XML, why not make it generate Lisp, which can carry both programs and data?
Because Lisp syntax is so much simpler than that of JavaScript etc. it is much easier to avoid errors when generating code. In JavaScript you can use JSON to generate data, but JSON can not carry functions around.
I think this idea makes a lot sense. Instead of making the LLM generate JSON or XML, why not make it generate Lisp, which can carry both programs and data?