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> Because first-class functions aren't “code as data”. When you have a first-class function, the only thing you can do with it is call it. If it were a data structure, you could an…

> What I mean by “code in an object language is data in the metalanguage” is that, in the metalanguage in which you're writing a compiler or interpreter, the object language progra…

Well, the key part is gracefully . Lots of languages can manipulate code as data, but so for for me only in homoiconic languages does it end up feeling graceful for a while (althou…

> You should check out Racket's macro system. It's a lot more sophisticated than Common Lisp's. Common Lisp macros are to C (e.g., gensym is a macro-level malloc, you need to manua…

Okay, I've spent a lot of time writing Common Lisp and even more time reading about Common Lisp, and to be honest, I'm just a little tired of the cult around it. People who know it…