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Programs are a way for us humans to communicate with machines. Literals, symbols and bindings of symbols to values are incredibly fundamental, and yet often left implicit.

I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself. These were Maxwell’s Equations of Software!

Alan Kay

Literals

Symbols / Variables

Bindings

Ken Pu
Sunday, Apr 1, 2018

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