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Re:Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design ... by mort96 on Thursday August 21, 2025 @04:59AM (#44970586)
An excellent opportunity for you to elaborate on the connection, since I'm not seeing it.
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Re:Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design ... by Timwi on Thursday August 21, 2025 @08:29AM (#44971929)
Same. Lisp’s selling point is that “code is data” — not objects.
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Re:Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design ... by deterministic on Friday August 22, 2025 @09:22PM (#44992061)
All code is data. Many languages (Haskell for example) can directly manipulate code as data (macros). The unique thing about lisp is that the code is represented as a car/cons list. Other languages could do the same when writing macros. However most have chosen not to.
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