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> That said, Common Lisp is weird. What I find particularly jarring is that functions and variables live in different namespaces: if you put a function into a variable, you can’t just use it like a function, you have to funcall it.

Unless I’m misunderstanding, the author sounds like a developer that’s primarily used JS. It’s really not abnormal to have to include parens after a method name in a language, which indicating that you are calling a function.

parent greenkey 6 years ago

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