Lexical scope and closures were uncommon in 1995 industry/"blue collar" languages, no fair comparing to languages "these days". Code as data (homoiconicity) wa

Lexical scope and closures were uncommon in 1995 industry/"blue collar" languages, no fair comparing to languages "these days". Code as data (homoiconicity) was ruled out by the "Make it look like Java" order from Sun and Netscape management. Sorry.