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Re:Asteroids in under 600 lines of Common Lisp (uses SBCL an... by batgaijin on Friday August 24, 2012 @08:03PM (#4430460)
It's not 'great lispers' it's 'programmers reading lisp tutorials'

If you can find one Lisp tutorial that mentions only Vim or even shows Vim and Emacs as competing setups I would be genuinely surprised.

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Re:Asteroids in under 600 lines of Common Lisp (uses SBCL an... by idoh on Saturday August 25, 2012 @12:19AM (#4431093)
Here is one: http://ycombinator.com/arc/tut.txt

"There are 4 parentheses at the end of that call to cons. How do Lisp programmers deal with this? They don't. You could add or subtract a right paren from that expression and most wouldn't notice. Lisp programmers don't count parens. They read code by indentation, not parens, and when writing code they let the editor match parens (use :set sm in vi, M-x lisp-mode in Emacs)."

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