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Re:C++ in Coders at Work by mbrubeck on Friday October 16, 2009 @08:05PM (#886407)
Just as Lisp programmers add new syntax and vocabulary to build custom languages, C++ programmers do the same by taking them away.
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Re:C++ in Coders at Work by abrahamsen on Saturday October 17, 2009 @05:00AM (#886792)
Does anyone really use all of Common Lisp?

I'd say the justification for all of the large languages (like C++ and Common Lisp) is the same. You may not need all of it, but the features you do need will at least be standardized, compared to using a small language with ad-hoc extensions to achieve the same.

[ I here include the standard library as part of the language, for languages with extensive meta-programming support like C++ and Common Lisp, it makes little sense to distinguish. ]

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