Re: Metalanguages in environments where code is data. Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed

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From: chris fedde
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 1994 22:27

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In article <39dom3$66q@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU>,
Tom Christiansen  <tchrist@mox.perl.com> wrote:
>:-> In gnu.misc.discuss, peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>:I'm not talking about coding styles at all. I'm talking about a basic
>:capability common to all Lisp-derived languages that there's no syntactic
>:distinction between code and data. 
>
>hm... eval `cat /vmunix` never seems to work. :-)
>

Peter, Tom, 
Guys...  Take this one off line OK.  You've taken this beond simple
religious discussion and have begun the mud slinging.  If you 
can't kiss and make up now, at least wait till after the polls close
on Tuesday.

thanks
chris
--
"Is there no end to this accursed forest?" said Thorin.

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Subject: Re: Metalanguages in environments where code is data.
 Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed
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