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: Peter da Silva
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 1994 22:08

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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. :-)

The shell is a lisp-derived language?
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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
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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