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While functions, variables, macros, and 25 special operators provide the basic building blocks of the language itself, the building blocks of your programs will be the data structures you use. As Fred Brooks observed in The Mythical Man-Month, “Representation is the essence of programming.”1
Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month, 20th Anniversary Edition (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 1995), p. 103. Emphasis in original.
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Seibel, P. (2005). Numbers, Characters, and Strings. In: Practical Common Lisp. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0017-8_10
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