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DataDrivenProgramming

• Lisp is sin

the progression of a Lisp programmer - the newbie realizes that the difference between code and data is trivial. The expert realizes that all code is data. And the true master realizes that all data is code.

• http://www.norvig.com/paip/README.html
  • http://www.norvig.com/paip/gps.lisp

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• On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem by AlanTuring

Given a description of a program and a finite input, decide whether the program finishes running or will run forever, given that input.

• via http://www.bofh.org.uk/articles/2008/04/07/code-is-data-and-it-always-has-been
  
  
• SICP

SmartDataAndDumbCode data is just dumb code and code is just smart data.

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The prove of the Halting-problem is an example of code considered data: Code is data, and it always has been