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by zeveb 3704 days ago
> Young fool, only now, at the end, do you understand... code is data.

And clearly storing C in strings is a saner way to handle code than as Lisp stored in S-expressions. Who could possibly doubt it?

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Who doesn't like having to escape double-quotes and newlines or the simple yet powerful aesthetics of programs entirely styled in font-lock-string-face?