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Re:Preventative care doesn't save money on Sunday February 18, 2018 @12:00PM (#16406922)
Yet it is quite different to spend 6 months in a hospital when your kids are 3 and 5, compared to spending the same money and time in hospital when it is your grand children who are 3 and 5.

You cannot put a pricetag on ones health when other lives depend on it.

Re:Yes, code is data, but that's not what makes Lisp cool on Saturday February 17, 2018 @02:40AM (#16399567)
It's actually Language of Irritating Superfluous Parenthesis.

Anyway, even saying "code is linked list" does not really cut it as you can represent 'ordinary' programming language program as a list of tokens. What makes LISP special is that code is a first class citizen and the mapping between code you edit and the programs run-time memory representation is trivial. Combined, you get this special feeling that "code is data".