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Re:What's Special About Lisp? by rat on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @04:03AM (#2840236)
popularity, culture and ease of sharing libraries(ex. cpan) for one.

But also its not that its great for writing libraries but that its great for writing libraries that extend the language.

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Re:What's Special About Lisp? by anghyflawn on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @05:26AM (#2840402)
I think that Zach Beane is doing a stupendous job with quicklisp. Of course it's nowhere near CPAN at this stage, but it's a tremendous step forward compared to, say, plain asdf-install.
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