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delegate on Oct 27, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Lisp? (2015)

I look at it as an intersection between the feature sets of Common Lisp, Clojure, Scheme, etc. In other words - the most basic features of these languages that are common - S-expressions, data is code is data, REPL-driven development, etc

Zababa on Oct 27, 2021 [–]

That's a nice way of looking at it, but that means we can't really talk about libraries, performance, dev tooling and stuff like that.

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