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Re:The most remarkable legacy system I have seen by eru on Monday July 13, 2020 @10:27AM (#23821107)
> I'd expect most lisps to suffer in the same way.

Why? Eg Scheme or even the uglier Common Lisp are quite disciplined. And Clojure ain't too bad either.

As far as I can tell, Lispers don't usually go around monkey-patching things.

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Re:The most remarkable legacy system I have seen by barrkel on Monday July 13, 2020 @10:37AM (#23821210)
Elispers certainly do!
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Re:The most remarkable legacy system I have seen by eru on Monday July 13, 2020 @11:16PM (#23828110)
Oh, definitely. But no one in their right mind would use emacs lisp. Or any dynamically-by-default scoped Lisp.
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