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Re:Rage Against the God Machine by IshKebab on Sunday June 07, 2020 @01:46PM (#23449122)
Isn't that widely regarded as being the reason Lisp never caught on. Everyone writes their own standard library so nobody can understand each others' code.
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Re:Rage Against the God Machine by bitwize on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:13PM (#23449318)
Just because it's widely regarded as such doesn't make it true. I find Ruby on Rails code to be more impenetrable than Lisp, and no one can say Rails didn't catch on.
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