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Re:Lisp in Space by djha-skin on Sunday August 06, 2023 @10:53AM (#37022600)
I'm told that Elixir still closely follows the tradition of "code as data" while the syntax actually looks more like ruby. Things like "do...end" blocks are actually just syntax sugar for effectively parentheses[1].

I've also read that Julia is an acceptable Lisp [2].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36986769

2: https://mfiano.net/posts/2022-09-04-from-common-lisp-to-juli...

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Re:Lisp in Space by behnamoh on Sunday August 06, 2023 @11:16AM (#37022864)
`do... end` blocks are a big no for me. You'd effectively replace single characters like (, {, [, with whole words.
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Re:Lisp in Space by fndex on Sunday August 06, 2023 @12:51PM (#37023908)
Just get over it. Semantics are much more important than syntax. Every language will have some piece of syntax you won't like.
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Re:Lisp in Space by vindarel on Sunday August 06, 2023 @08:34PM (#37028528)
> mfiano

an answer to the post: https://gist.github.com/digikar99/24decb414ddfa15a220b27f674... (HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32750052)

and BTW he's back to CL. https://mfiano.net/posts/2022-11-05-programming-languages-i-... (there was a few more explanations and criticism of Julia on IRC which I can't find rn)

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