▲ | Timwi 4 days ago | |
Same. Lisp’s selling point is that “code is data” — not objects. | ||
▲ | deterministic 3 days ago | parent [-] | |
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. |