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Subject: Re: LISP evaluator question - (nf)
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iuvax!mw    Nov 16 08:49:00 1983

From:  Mitchell Wand
       Indiana University

In most versions of Scheme, the function position is evaluated
normally, that is, the value of the expression in the function
position is a function.

The idea that the function position in Lisp is evaluated specially is
associated, at least in my mind, with the fact that in most Lisps
functions are not first-class citizens ("the upward Funarg problem").
I'm not sure about the historical reasons.

See Sussman & Steele's MIT AI Memos on Scheme, or Abelson & Sussman's
book (forthcoming).