Re: Lisp's QUOTE and Mathematica's "Hold"

Nathan Baum wrote:
> We see again that the comparison between Release/Hold and EVAL/QUOTE is
> ill-founded. It's like saying multiplication and addition are equivalent
> because 2 + 2 == 2 * 2.

Yes, you are quite right. My examples that produced the right answer did so
for the wrong reason. Oh well. So Lisp's eval and quote wouldn't be very
useful for writing a CAS. What do Lispers use eval and quote for then? :-)

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