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Comment by chipuni

7 years ago

Try writing some larger programs in a modern Lisp.

Lisp causes you to think in different ways. It allows for metaprogramming in ways other languages don't allow. It is endlessly reconfigurable.

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big_chungus  7 years ago

> modern Lisp.

I've never heard this before. Modern C++ sure, but I thought most of the "modernization" in lisp was done in descendant languages (i.e. racket).

  • flavio81  7 years ago

    > I thought most of the "modernization" in lisp was done in descendant languages

    One core feature of any Lisp dialect is that you can extend the language using Lisp.

    Thus, you don't need to "change" the language spec or write a new compiler to extend (and thus modernize) the language.

  • aeorgnoieang  7 years ago

    I'm not sure there's anything now that 'LISP' could refer to beyond the family of languages, of which Clojure, Common Lisp, and even Scheme are all 'modern' dialects.