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Re:Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017) by Ace17 on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @02:00PM (#16586852)
> Once you become familiar with the language there is not much to lookup in the docs because it's such a small language.

The same could be said about Lisp. Would you trade your C compiler for Lisp one?

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Re:Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017) by laythea on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @03:37PM (#16587624)
It is not fair to compare Lisp to C. C is much more practical.
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