Victor Bazarov wrote:
> Joe Greer wrote:
>> [..] For example, an SQL database will be binary, but won't be
>> executable. On the other hand, script languages are executable and
>> are also human readable. The concepts are orthoganal in that regard.
>
> If one would be strict in that regard, then only bootstrap program
> is truly executable, and everything else is data, _especially_ scripts,
> which are but the source data to the corresponding interpreter...
>
> V
No, the bootstrap program is also data, to be interpreted by the hardware.
The hardware is only data that is interpreted by the universe and
physicists.
LISP is the rest.
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