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Re:(λove (print (eval (read)))) by Theriac25 on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @04:22AM (#6358841)
> In particular, files and programs are the same in MS-DOS and Unix. You can, for instance, ls the ls command or cat the cat command.

Uh, no you cant:

  $ ls ls
  ls: cannot access ls: No such file or directory
  $ cat cat
  cat: cat: No such file or directory
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Re:(λove (print (eval (read)))) by euccastro on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @05:11AM (#6358962) 

    $ ls $(which ls)
    $ cat $(which cat)
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Re:(λove (print (eval (read)))) by vseloved on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @07:42AM (#6359409)
looks just like (funcall #'funcall ... ;)
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Re:(λove (print (eval (read)))) by Avshalom on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @01:22PM (#6361453)
Its more like

  ls /bin/ls
you can simply cat cat or ls ls by cd-ing to /bin first... with the caveat that some distros have moved them to /usr/bin or somewhere, hence the 'which'
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Re:(λove (print (eval (read)))) by moomin on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @04:41PM (#6369917)
Exactly. File systems resemble modern namespaces, not namespacing by type. You can put an executable and a data file in the same directory, or not. Your choice.
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