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No, declarative programs exist. They are not instructions. There is no real line between code and data. This is an observation that runs all the way from Turin
by golemotron 3y ago
No, declarative programs exist. They are not instructions.
There is no real line between code and data. This is an observation that runs all the way from Turing Machines in computability theory to the Von Neumann architecture and homoiconicity in Lisp.
What we call 'data' is just code that needs a cleverer interpreter.
- Izkata 3y agoLess into theory and more into "wait wtf": Some of the older projects I've worked on were written by people who loved database-driven stuff, to the point they did things like put perl code into one table column (with sentinel values you had to find/replace before `eval`ing the code) and sql into another table that retrieved values for those find/replaces, both retrieved and executed by some really generic code. Code or data: Well... both.