From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-03-01T23:44:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Introducing myself and my interest in ruby


"Mark Hubbart" <discord@mac.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:BBFC9134-6A21-11D8-8CCB-000502FDD5CC@mac.com...
> On Feb 28, 2004, at 3:46 AM, Tobias Nurmiranta wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Mark Hubbart wrote:
> >> From my (very limited) experience with it, it doesn't seem that lisp
> >> has an eval statement, so much as lisp *is* an eval statement :)
> >
> > Lisp has always had an eval statement, ever since 1960 when the first
> > paper on Lisp[1] was published.
>
> actually, I was meaning that as a joke. I haven't ever gotten beyond
> the very basics with lisp. To me, the "code is data is code" thing
> makes me feel as if every statement is eval'ed... ("Which part's the
> code, and which part's the data?" "Run it and figure it out.") Please
> excuse a novice ;)

And because Lispers felt not confortable with the simple distinction of
code, data and eval they added macros. :-)

    robert