Published on: 2025-06-11 16:19:28
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
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