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Re:Why Common Lisp Is Now the Best Programming Language by gorgoiler on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:38AM (#49974248)
”Would you agree that some programming languages are better than others? If so then one of them must be the best.”

False. A partial ordering doesn’t guarantee a maximum element!

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Re:Why Common Lisp Is Now the Best Programming Language by misterchocolat on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:45AM (#49974300)
Fair enough haha you got me
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Re:Why Common Lisp Is Now the Best Programming Language by DonHopkins on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @05:11AM (#49976063)
Lisp isn't the best language for every problem; it's a language for making better languages for particular problems.

So Lisp is better than itself.

If the extension improves something without making anything else worse under the chosen criteria, that's a Pareto improvement. Otherwise, it's a tradeoff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency#Pareto_order

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Re:Why Common Lisp Is Now the Best Programming Language by iLemming on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:00PM (#49985973)
Lisp is not a language. It's an abstract idea for a language.
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