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Re:Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) by nabla9 on Saturday September 10, 2016 @06:33PM (#12471172)
I had to simplify in the sake of argument.

Both Common Lisp and Scheme are multi paradigm languages by nature, but Scheme took philosophical step into different direction. This philosophical difference may follow into other Lisp dialects that are not exactly Scheme.

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Re:Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday September 10, 2016 @06:38PM (#12471195)
...I would say clojure goes in a third direction, but fair enough.
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