20 May
2014
20 May
'14
4:32 p.m.
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:51 PM, MigMit
And no, whatever Lispers want to believe in, program is not AST. Program is TEXT.
No, a program is a bunch of bits the computer can execute. It can be represented as TEXT, or an AST, or even a diagram in some graphical programming tool somewhere - all of which we also confusingly call a "program". As noted by others, attempts to get away from TEXT have been going on for decades. So far every attempt has failed - for reasons also noted by others.