From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-03-23T01:19:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 08:10:59PM +0900, Pe�a, Botp wrote:
> 
> data is _just_ data until one makes *use of it. So until someone makes use of it, it is still useless..  Isn't it the reason why there are rubyists all around? Is the ruby language data? ;)
> 

Of course Ruby is just data.  That's true of every programming language.
Lisp isn't special in this regard -- it's special, in that it doesn't
try to pretend there's a difference between source code and data,
whereas (most) other languages do.

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