Bohemian Lispsody

[Intro – Soft piano, reflective] Is this real code? Is this just syntax? Caught in recursion, No escape from the stack… Open your REPL, Type what you feel, I’m just a coder, My bugs aren’t real… [Verse 1 – Gentle storytelling] Just a little list, Wrapped in parentheses, Cons a head and tail, Now it’s growing endlessly… Eval came easy, Apply came slow, Little lambda function, Watch it go, watch it go… [Pre-Chorus – Rising tension] Mama, just wrote a form, Defined a func, now it’s reborn, Typed return and now it runs away… Mama, code had just begun, But now I’ve gone and macro’d it all away… [Chorus – Emotional swell] Lisp ooooooh, Didn’t mean to crash the stack, If I’m not done compiling this time tomorrow, Carry on, carry on, As if bugs don’t really matter… [Verse 2 – Picking up pace] Too late, my REPL’s dead, Stack trace pounding in my head, Parentheses unmatched again… Goodbye, sweet sanity, I’ve got to go, Gotta leave this scope and face the flow… [Operatic Section – Full prog rock-style madness] I see a little silhouette of a cons— Car! Cdr! Car! Cdr! Will you do the lambda flow? Macro-expansion—very very frightening me! parenthesees-let parenthesees-parenthesees-x 10 close-parenthesees close-parenthesees close-parenthesees! parenthesees-let parenthesees-parenthesees-x 10 close-parenthesees close-parenthesees close-parenthesees! (define! define!) tail recursion free! I’m just a poor dev, nobody loves me… He’s just a poor dev from a code family, Spare him his stack from this monstrosity! Easy eval, easy apply, will you let me go?! (let me go!) No! We will not let you go! (let me go!) No! We will not let you go! (let me go!)—Will not let you go! (let me go!)—Will not let you go! Never let you go—ohhhhh! [Rock Section – Guitar kicks in hard] So you think you can macro and leave me to debug?! So you think you can cons me and mess up my code?! Oh baby—can’t do this to me baby! Just gotta get out, Just gotta get right outta this tree! [Breakdown – Reflective, sparse piano returns] Nothing really matters, Any code can see… Nothing really matters… Except complexity… [Outro – Soft, fading] Any way the eval flows…