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Re:Lisp Is Not An Acceptable Java by 6ren on Saturday April 16, 2011 @07:46AM (#2453780)
What a bizarre article. Lisp can't represent XML? Garbage collection is obsolete?

> type stuff into the REPL... can't store the code in files that way.

What's the standard solution to this? Serialize everything, and then hand-edit to just keep the things you want? Cut-n-paste the history into a file?

Re:Lisp Is Not An Acceptable Java by phaylon on Saturday April 16, 2011 @11:41AM (#2454132)
> What a bizarre article. Lisp can't represent XML?

This was the point where I thought "This can't be serious." I always found SXML a perfect example of where data and code meet.