[racket] Quoted expressions in #lang racket

From: Racket Noob (racketnoob at hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Sep 18 16:41:08 EDT 2011

> FWIW, as one PL educator, I don't find that to be something I wish to
> teach to the students who are beginning to learn what is important
> about programming languages. I also don't think that a list is a
> particularly good representation for a function application in an
> implementation and as a mental device I think it can only confuse to
> have two distinct concepts mapping in a single concrete thing.
> 
> Robby   Ok, maybe this is not something that's important in other programming languages, but it *is* important in lisps. As a lisp educator, how can you *not* to teach this fundamental fact about lisp? 		 	   		  
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