Re:Extension Points, or how OCaml is becoming more like Lisp
by emiljbs on Friday May 09, 2014 @06:53AM
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The thing about the OP is that Lisp isn't well defined. The only constant is that what Lisp is changes, so it's really not that useful to talk about Lisp as "the final language" because there will always be new Lisps. The only common thing between the Lisps seems to be the s-expressions and metaprogramming.
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Re:Extension Points, or how OCaml is becoming more like Lisp
by wes-exp on Friday May 09, 2014 @10:38AM
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Dialects evolve, sure. Although it's worth noting that if one had adopted Common Lisp in the '90s one would have a stable base that is today, 20 years later, still ahead of basically everything on the language level (except for the type system as noted in other comments).