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by nonchalance 4703 days ago
Code is data but data isn't necessarily code. Even in Lisp.
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The difference is one of interpretation, not of representation; i.e. it's determined by an application, above parser level. When looking just at the written down form, data and code are the same thing.

Code more Lisp and read more Hofstadter ;).