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by coldtea 3322 days ago
>The outside world does not have an object browser, nor is it made of s-expressions.

You'd be surprised.

Joking aside, you seem to fixate on an implementation detail. It's just that the computing world, or rather the Unix on, is "made of text".

The world is actually made of objects and data, and this is closer to Lisp and Smalltalk.