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by svantana 4577 days ago
He's most likely referring to the homoiconicity of lisp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity) - when processor operations are a data type, writing a subprogram and executing it is as simple as filling in an array. In C, you would need to have a C compiler and a virtual machine in your program to run it!