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Re:Common Lisp Community Survey 2024 Results by germandiago on Saturday August 10, 2024 @06:19AM (#41208512)
> Something like CLOS has much of its functionality exposed to the programmer as macros, which sit on top of functions and OOP. It's a domain specific extension to Common Lisp for OOP.

Yes: well-known, a few and well-documented. Now give that power to literally every programmer and let them use it freely. Then the cognitive overhead is unavoidable, like with anything else. But with macros things can get way more obtuse than with functions and a few pre-made mechanisms in a language that everyone understands.

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Re:Common Lisp Community Survey 2024 Results by reikonomusha on Saturday August 10, 2024 @03:24PM (#41211616)
Have you worked on a professional software engineering team where every member was able to do things "freely"? That's a project management failure, not a language failure.
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Re:Common Lisp Community Survey 2024 Results by germandiago on Thursday August 15, 2024 @10:15AM (#41256365)
Usually there are rules. But it is way easier to gollow Java or Go than Lisp full of macros or random memory-management C++ bc those are possible. In Java it is just more restricted , hence more streamlined.
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