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From: Pascal Costanza on 17 Jun 2010 14:15
On 16/06/2010 21:23, fortunatus wrote:
> On Jun 14, 10:28 am, Pascal Costanza<p...(a)p-cos.net> wrote:
>> (coerce ... 'function) converts a quoted lambda expression to an actual
>> function.
>
> It seems to me that one main use of that would be "auto-programming"
> kind of code: some program that writes a function as a list structure,
> then wants to load it into the system.

From the back cover of the Lisp 1.5 manual [1], published in 1962:

"LISP can interpret and execute programs written in the form of
S-expressions. Thus, like machine language, and unlike most other higher
level languages, it can be used to generate programs for further execution."

Still true, still true...


Pascal

[1] see
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/index.html#LISP_I_and_LISP_1.5_for_IBM_704,_709,_7090_

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