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How does Lisp differ from other programming languages (such as ‘C’).
What is the fundamental datatype in Lisp? What is the fundamental
operation in Lisp?
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Lisp differs from languages like C primarily because it is Homoiconic (code is data, represented as S-expressions), and everything is an expression that returns a value.
Fundamental Datatype: The Cons Cell (Pair), composed of a CAR and a CDR, which is used to build all lists and code structures.
Fundamental Operations: CONS (constructs a pair), CAR (gets the first element), and CDR (gets the rest of the list).
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