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Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006) by weavie on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @07:54AM (#16584058)
We are getting to the stage now where a lot of languages are catching up with the features that lisp had in the 70's, so the huge benefits of lisp aren't quite as obvious as they used to be.
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Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006) by flavio81 on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @12:17PM (#16585825)
>so the huge benefits of lisp aren't quite as obvious as they used to be

They still haven't caught up. I don't find any other language that gives at least 3 of these features

- Fully interactive development -- i can recompile/redefine a function while the code is running

- Fully interactive OOP development -- i can recompile/redefine a class while the code is running

- OOP system based on multiple dispatch/multimethods

- true metaprogramming done using the same language's syntax, not a special, cumbersome lib.

- execution speed on par with the JVM and sometimes approaching C speed.

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