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0 pointsmahmud17y ago0 comments

I haven't mentioned Common Lisp by name, and if it makes you feel any better, every CLer has a pet-Lisp trapped inside him, including yours truly ;-)

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icey17y ago· 1 in thread

Don't get me wrong, I really like Common Lisp (well, all I've ever played with is SBCL, so maybe I would like another variant more or less). I just don't see why it's impossible for someone to actually like Arc, or Clojure, or PLT Scheme or any other little-L lisp instead of Common Lisp.

mahmudOP17y ago

Those are all "modern lisp dialects", none of my tone or phrasing suggested CL-centrism. Please re-read.

I hope any pre-conceived notion of Lisper hostility isn't getting in the way you read my prose above.

Demand for rigor in thought shouldn't be mistaken for hostility.

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