The best design features aren't conscious choices, but consequences of simplicity.
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I'm usually nodding along, but scratching my head on this one. Could you elaborate?
For example, the fact that Lisp code is made of Lisp data structures makes it possible to define enormously powerful macros. But that wasn't why McCarthy made that decision. He did it because it was the easiest way to write an interpreter for a language in itself.
