The beauty is in that a weighted graph of lambdas could be build out of conses even back then. The idea that code is data (and it could be generated by a progr

The beauty is in that a weighted graph of lambdas could be build out of conses even back then. The idea that code is data (and it could be generated by a program itself) was already there, but they have dropped this right intuition and turned back too early, and the dark ages of Java and packer's mindset followed.