My unsolicited, biased advice: use s-expressions. Don't trigger a parse simply to compute with the sums of products and integers [0]. If you can think of something better than s-expressions use that.
Also, read http://this-plt-life.tumblr.com/ and don't take yourself too seriously. Stand on the shoulders of giants and continue reaching for the sky. Languages are super fun.
Also, read http://this-plt-life.tumblr.com/ and don't take yourself too seriously. Stand on the shoulders of giants and continue reaching for the sky. Languages are super fun.
[0] http://www.infoq.com/interviews/mccarthy-elephant-2000