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: Tom Christiansen
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 1994 16:49

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:-> 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. :-)

--tom
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Tom Christiansen      Perl Consultant, Gamer, Hiker      tchrist@mox.perl.com


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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
Date: 4 Nov 1994 16:49:07 GMT
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