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Re:The German School of Lisp (2011) by nonrandomstring on Saturday November 12, 2022 @08:44AM (#33572975)
> Isn't the point of Lisps to be endlessly customizable, making the invention of a new dialect less necessary?

A great question. Maybe everything should have been built on Scheme once . and . for . all But people and the world aren't like that. We are restless souls.

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Re:The German School of Lisp (2011) by sph on Saturday November 12, 2022 @08:55AM (#33573068)
When they sort out the spec issue (R7RS) we will reach programming nirvana and world peace. But I doubt humanity will live long enough to see that day.
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Re:The German School of Lisp (2011) by JonChesterfield on Saturday November 12, 2022 @01:20PM (#33575553)
Scheme's macro system is way more complicated than it should be.
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