[Axiom-developer] bootstrap Meta/Boot

[daly]

(ah, forth. i do so love forth)

Scheme is quite nice. My son implemented and sells a PHP compiler in
scheme. Scheme has two flaws from my point of view. A minor flaw is that
I end up implementing half of common lisp in scheme, and badly at that.

A major flaw is that scheme broke the correspondence of 
  nil == false == empty list
which is the bridge between the procedural and data representations.
THE fundamental insight of lisp is that 
  programs == data.

No other language gets this right.  Unfortunately there is no way to
fake this connection in scheme. So while I like the idea I think they
blew THE fundamental detail.

Tim