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by teamonkey 1114 days ago

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    1. This is a list: ( ). Everything is a list. Data structures are all lists.
    2. A program is a list of function calls
    3. Function calls are lists of instructions and parameters. For (A B C), A is the function name, B and C are parameters.
    4. If you don't want to execute a list as a function, but as data, you 'quote' it using a single quote mark '(A B C)
    5. Data is code, code is data.)