Code & data are the same the way animals & minerals are the same. Code in sexprs is like animals in boxes, not a huge advance in zoology.
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Zoology *is* putting animals in boxes.
I meant physical boxes, the way code can be physically in sexprs (look, data!) but this does nothing for an optimizing compiler.
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Compilers do just that. Meta programming is a thing. It's not about physical or not.
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By putting code in boxes (Lisp machine) we could avoid virtual memory and "Unix atrocities" like implicit env inheritance.
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