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Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem by jgeada on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:53AM (#50381422)
It really applies to all languages where the very process of developing extends the language. It is the modern day variant of the Babel curse: you end up with a perfect language for your problem understood by a single individual.
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Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem by antonvs on Thursday November 05, 2026 @02:10PM (#50383077)
There was a variation of this with Scheme: the standard language was small, so each implementation extended it in different directions, and there was plenty of disagreement about which directions were good or bad.
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