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Re:Why is Common Lisp not the most popular programming langu... by richie_adler on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @08:08PM (#39377883)
> And strings are lists

Eh, not really. Lists are mutable, strings are not.

Strings are iterable and sliceable, which makes them usable in many similar ways to lists, but they're not lists.

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Re:Why is Common Lisp not the most popular programming langu... by volemo on Thursday February 15, 2024 @02:50AM (#39380146)
Afaik, in Clojure lists are immutable by default, and strings (not literal ones) are mutable in Common Lisp. So I'd say depends on the flavour of your Lisp.
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