On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:41:32PM -0800, Christopher Smith wrote: > None were invented even remotely close to when Lisp was invented, or > when the book was written. After the book was written, some folks had > some recognition that they were on to something.
How about assembly then? That is self modifying and it predates Lisp. > It's not the same as the picture and the man, because in the case of > code vs. data it is entirely a matter of context rather than an inherent > property of the data. I was just trying to say that a bunch of bits just //represents// procedures but are not the procedures themselves. The actual procedures are a series of operations in space and time. For example, SWAP(registerA, registerB) only represents the physical procedure of swapping voltages between perhaps 2 areas of metal. I won't belabor this point anymore. Not sure if it leads to anything useful. Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
