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RSC for LISP Developers — overreacted

Okay, so I don’t actually know LISP, so this is gonna be a tough one. If I misunderstand something, please help me understand it. But from what I know, one of the big ideas of LISP is that code is data, and data is code. I mean, that’s kind of generally true, but in LISP it’s both culturally and syntactically emphasized. For example, let’s take this piece of code in LISP: (+ 2 2) This gives us 4. But let’s put a quote before it: '(+ 2 2) Suddenly, the result is… (+ 2 2). Uh, what do I do with th...

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