My first "a ha" moment using lisp, when i suddenly got my first glimpse of understanding the whole code-is-data-is-code thing and what it makes possible, was my favorite moment using computers, and nothing before or since even comes close. Try it sometime, it's great.
> when i suddenly got my first glimpse of understanding the whole code-is-data-is-code thing
I know it exists, but I still haven't had that feeling, haven't had that moment
The irony of such a post on a website with the domain name “y combinator”…
And a platform that is written in a lisp-language specifically created for hosting said platform, a language called Arc. The roots of lisp runs deep at HN.