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Re:The Common Lisp Condition System – Upcoming Book by phoe-krk on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:26AM (#23846603)
Using the word "alien" in context of a language often described as "made with alien technology" sounds peculiarly fitting.

The image-based Lisp is just very very different when compared to mainstream batch languages like C, Rust, or Java.

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Re:The Common Lisp Condition System – Upcoming Book by Akronymus on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @12:13PM (#23847352)
Foreign implies a sort of familiarity/similarity to what you know. Hence me using alien as it is different enough, to basically be, well, alien.

But that only wants to make me learn it properly more.

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