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Re:The German School of Lisp (2011) by mikelevins on Saturday November 12, 2022 @01:29PM (#33575639)
There are a lot of dialects because its core is one of the easiest programming languages to understand and implement, and once implemented, it's one of the easiest languages to extend. That's all there is to it, pretty much.

Anyone who is interested in the design of prgramming languages will find it easy to make their own Lisp and try out any ideas that seem congenial to them. The natural and obvious consequence is a lot of Lisps.

Creatives gotta create.

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Re:The German School of Lisp (2011) by kazinator on Saturday November 12, 2022 @01:54PM (#33575868)
I think there are lots of dialects because it's the easiest programming language to misunderstand.

Somehow, someone who makes a scripting language with C syntax , like Awk or Javascript, instinctively knows that it isn't C and not to call it that.

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Re:The German School of Lisp (2011) by johnlorentzson on Sunday November 13, 2022 @01:21PM (#33585752)
That sounds about right. It's very easy to make something resembling a Lisp, and even easier to call the result a Lisp.
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