I distinctly remember the moment 25 years ago, at around 2:00 am in bed in my dorm, the semester I was taking SICP: “cons doesn’t need to be a special form! Cl

I distinctly remember the moment 25 years ago, at around 2:00 am in bed in my dorm, the semester I was taking SICP: “cons doesn’t need to be a special form! Closures are general purpose data structures!” I raced (all of 6 feet) to my… hmm at that point must have been the old Gateway 2000 with an AMD K5 brain transplant… and spun up the Edwin environment to confirm my hypothesis. Up there with getting married and having kids as the great life events of all time.