> that was the big revelation to me when I was in graduate school — when I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.

> that was the big revelation to me when I was in graduate school — when I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself. > These were Maxwell’s Equations of Software! This is the whole world of programming in a few lines that I can put my hand over. Here's the whole (short) section, which culminates in the definition of eval. "An Universal Lisp Function" http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~rountev.1/6341/pdf/Manual.pdf#page=18 http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~rountev.1/6341/pdf/Manual.pdf...