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Re:Not Lisp again (2009) by dorfsmay on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @02:52PM (#14249391)
They are IDEs, and if you think about it for a minute, Lisp languages have to be the easyest to implement IDEs for, as their syntax is exactly the AST and easy to parse.
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Re:Not Lisp again (2009) by dualogy on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @02:59PM (#14249472)
> if you think about it for a minute, Lisp languages have to be the easyest to implement IDEs for, as their syntax is exactly the AST and easy to parse

I wouldn't think the parsing stage has ever been the top bottleneck or chief complexity/complication for IDE/tooling developers..

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