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A comment on The Roots of Lisp (2001).

Re:The Roots of Lisp (2001) by yters on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:11AM (#22065193)
If I look at the operon structure of a genome, and squint a bit, it looks very similar to the LISP structure:

(func var0 var1 ... varn)

Could it be that the design of LISP is inspired by the structure of the genetic code?

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Re:The Roots of Lisp (2001) by abhiyerra on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:58AM (#22065696)
I always thought this as well. In Lisp, data is the program similar to how DNA is data as well as the program.
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Re:The Roots of Lisp (2001) by tabtab on Thursday January 16, 2020 @02:19PM (#22067860)
We are all just mutated Lisp...and mutts.

https://xkcd.com/224/

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