This is amazing. In 1989. And here we are in 2015, looking at data by feverishly flipping arrows in collapsable trees in eclipse. I just don't get it. I am

This is amazing. In 1989. And here we are in 2015, looking at data by feverishly flipping arrows in collapsable trees in eclipse. I just don't get it. I am somewhat in love with homoiconicity; perhaps no other revelation in CS mattered more to me than that discovery when learning scheme. Here's the one sticking point that I couldn't figure out: how to live without closures. Building up a quoted hunk of code and injecting the right values in the right places just seems so much less clear. Thoughts? Maybe it's just a matter of having the right helper functions, like something that does printf-style substitution for quoted programs? And I'll need another hour to go through all those other links above, but I'm excited about it! More later.