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Any real world problem solved in Lisp, relative to being solved in Python, eliminates the superfluous problem of Python being involved: a syntactically Fortran-like cumbersome scripting language with somewhat Lispy semantics.

Note that you can program the CL system by expressing yourself in Python:

https://common-lisp.net/project/clpython/

Common Lisp is not only a language, but also a platform (analogous to Mono or JVMs). It has a model of computation: programs expand fully down to a set of special forms, which then compile. You can build languages on top of this.

parent kazinator 11 years ago

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