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Re:Not Lisp again (2009) by chimeracoder on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @02:04PM (#14248878)
> At least half of my programming is tying together high level services and libraries. I know how I can express those concepts succinctly in Java, C++, JS, Swift etc. I'd love to see some examples of Lisp for something like a REST controller, where I call services, repositories etc.

You should look at Racket. Racket is a Scheme-like[0] Lisp that aims to be "batteries-included". It includes things like a web-server out-of-the-box.

[0] it is technically a hybrid of R5RS and R6RS, so pedants can argue over whether it is really "a Scheme" or not.

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Re:Not Lisp again (2009) by klibertp on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @02:22PM (#14249079)
> whether it is really "a Scheme" or not

It's not and it's not about being pedantic. Racket changed its name nearly a decade ago and, at that point, it already wasn't Scheme either.

I have a post about where Racket (and Clojure) come from: https://klibert.pl/posts/clojure_and_racket_history.html

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