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Re:The Lisp Curse (2011) by vmorgulis on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:19AM (#11175411)
Emacs?

Edit: Urbit has a Lisp (http://urbit.org/)

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Re:The Lisp Curse (2011) by kruhft on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:26AM (#11175464)
The underlying 'functional assembly' VM language of Urbit (Nock) is a lisp that works on arbitrarily large integers. Here's a compiler for it I wrote a while ago, written in Common Lisp:

https://gist.github.com/burtonsamograd/29103c2dfaa67f4fd344

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Re:The Lisp Curse (2011) by vmorgulis on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:37AM (#11175557)
Interesting.

The music on your home page reminds me a bit Utopia soundtrack (like the sound of the frog).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZYVb8Q5i9w

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Re:The Lisp Curse (2011) by kruhft on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:40AM (#11175590)
Thanks. I wrote it myself. I just put out a new album yesterday:

    http://kruhft.bandcamp.com/album/listener
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Re:The Lisp Curse (2011) by defgeneric on Thursday February 25, 2016 @12:15PM (#11175906)
Urbit is deeply reactionary.
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Re:The Lisp Curse (2011) by vmorgulis on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:17PM (#11176411)
Curtis Yarvin, yes.

Brendan Eich is a bit too.

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