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Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by kazinator on Thursday August 25, 2016 @10:04PM (#12363880)
Try TXR Lisp; you will be charmed.

http://www.nongnu.org/txr

Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by qwertyuiop924 on Friday August 26, 2016 @07:44AM (#12365515)
Thanks kaz, but I've already got the manpage bookmarked. I haven't looked at it in-depth yet, but it seems to be awk, but better, which is pretty awesome.
Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by kazinator on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:28AM (#12366912)
You can also completely ignore the "awk-but-different" TXR pattern-based extraction language, and just use it as a Lisp, too. The REPL is nothing but Lisp, and code stored in ".tl" files is treated as Lisp. TXR Lisp is designed to be a nice Lisp dialect on its own, not to just fill in the gaps in another language.
Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by qwertyuiop924 on Friday August 26, 2016 @03:03PM (#12368503)
Well, yeah, but why have one awesome thing when you can have two? I have to finish reading the docs, so I know how it works, though.