Please explain some of Paul Graham's points on LISP
- by kunjaan
I need some help understanding some of the points from Paul Graham's article http://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html
A new concept of variables. In Lisp, all variables are effectively pointers. Values are what have types, not variables, and assigning or binding variables means copying pointers, not what they point to.
A symbol type. Symbols differ…