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Re:Ask HN: Can someone explain to me why all languages don't... by pg on Monday December 22, 2008 @11:43PM (#407281)
If you don't need the things that only Lisp can do, there's not as much of a reason to use it.

True. But the Lisp programmer would reply that you need the things only Lisp can do in most non-trivial programs.

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