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Re:Using SBCL Common Lisp as a Dynamic Library by rayiner on Saturday April 16, 2022 @07:02PM (#31056877)
Common Lisp is just tastefully designed. Part of it is the language itself, but also the libraries, and the culture around it. Even tiny things like underscores-in-variable-names versus camelCaseVariableNames has knock on effects like encouraging descriptive names. It’s hard to distill it into just one feature.
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Re:Using SBCL Common Lisp as a Dynamic Library by smegsicle on Saturday April 16, 2022 @08:01PM (#31057195)
hyphenated-names also makes it much easier to see and remember whether you split something that might be a compound word- did i call it hotDog or hotdog? while hot-dog jumps out as more distinct and harder to mix up with hotdog

plus the canonicalization as ALL-CAPS makes it easy to point out SYMBOLS among the prose of documentation

edit: and people make fun of it for having like six equality functions, but at least it's only got one false value

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