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Re:Is Lisp still useful in today's world? (2011) by betterunix on Thursday February 21, 2013 @01:38PM (#5259161)
"It's just that I've never even read so much as a warning about this feature"

...have you really looked? Here is a warning, in the section titled, "Reader Security:"

http://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/guest/chap4.html

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Re:Is Lisp still useful in today's world? (2011) by pjungwir on Thursday February 21, 2013 @01:44PM (#5259201)
> have you really looked?

To be fair, no. I'm not a practicing Lisp programmer; I just admire the language. But I've read a fair number of Lisp tutorials, as well as SICP, and I don't recall it being mentioned. I'm glad it's out there somewhere!

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