title: How do I 'get' Lisp?
body: <p>I've read <a href="http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html" rel="noreferrer">The Nature of Lisp</a>.  The only thing I really got out of that was "code is data."  But without defining what these terms mean and why they are usually thought to be separate, I gain no insight.  My initial reaction to "code is data" is, so what?</p>