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Re:Lisp's Influence on Ruby by arikrahman on Sunday June 14, 2026 @04:42PM (#48532432)
Even the Lisps have Lisps. Like Clojure with ClojureScript, CLR, ClojureDart, Jank... etc.
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Re:Lisp's Influence on Ruby by slifin on Monday June 15, 2026 @02:40AM (#48537431)
Yes though they're trying to be effectively the same lisp

I do love that I learnt Clojure once like 5-7 years ago and more and more dialects keep expanding the choice of runtime I can target

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Re:Lisp's Influence on Ruby by arikrahman on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @06:22PM (#48563035)
It's the mustard seed that keeps growing! And without the fragmentation other PL's suffer from, which are reminiscent of the Tower of Babel, conversely.
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