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TeMPOraLtoday at 9:03 AM1 replyview on HN

Yes. Is it data? Yes.

Is the distinction between "code" and "data" just someone's opinion? Yes. There is no such distinction in reality.


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garganzoltoday at 11:39 AM

That's why encountering something like LISP for the first time (by writing a LISP interpreter, for example) creates a big bang event in form of an imminent intellectual catharsis. People who encountered it just once, will never be able to see the world through the old "meaty" lenses afterwards.