[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(2) Functions and data are not essentially the same thing any more than
nouns and verbs are essentially that same thing. They can only
be *represented* by the same language/alphabet.
"Functions and data are the same thing" is not the win, really, in spite
of the fact that is how the Lisper describe it.
The win is that Lisp syntax is extremely minimal. Therefore, when you
create something which does "source code transformation" ... aka macro
system ... you don't have this huge grammar with lots of cases that you
have to account for.
-a
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