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Re:Homoiconicity isn’t the point (2012) by q-big on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @08:45AM (#27036966)
> That's because programming in Python is basically same thing as programming in C, it is just more efficient.

You likely got this illusion because from beginning on, you actually programmed in C in a very "Pythonic" way.

Re:Homoiconicity isn’t the point (2012) by lmilcin on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @09:00AM (#27037079)
Actually, I learned by programming assembly for a long gone platform, 25 years ago. I have learned Python already after many years programming in C, Perl, Java and Common Lisp, professionally.

Experience with Lisp gave me a certain way of looking at programming languages. Rather than "oh, how fun!", I am more like "let's see which subset of Lisp it implements".

The only really interesting language in recent years that I have learned is Rust which truly does something new and it recalibrated my thinking about utility of making further subsets of Lisps. It seems there is still a lot of possibility for improvement from the language standpoint, and that it is possible that a lot of improvement may come from restricting the developer from doing certain things rather than giving unrestricted freedom.