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Comment by wtbob

11 years ago

That's why my favourite language does represent source code as trees…

That is, in Lisp the source is lists of lists and atoms, which are trees of data. It's pretty cool.

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jalanb  11 years ago

All languages actually represent source code as trees. It's just that the shavings are less obvious in other languages.

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