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Re:Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012) by yogthos on Thursday February 12, 2015 @10:11PM (#9042698)
I'm not sure what you're talking about here. The latest language in Lisp family is Clojure and it came out in 2007. The syntax that it uses is quite a bit different from Lisps from 30 years go.
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Re:Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012) by taeric on Thursday February 12, 2015 @11:48PM (#9042915)
I wouldn't call it quite a bit different. Really just seems to have a few small changes where they prefer [] over (). Otherwise just a different set of standard macros.

Or are you referring to some other difference?

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Re:Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012) by coldtea on Friday February 13, 2015 @09:32AM (#9044472)
Clojure is not that different, but besides that, parent implied changes from Lisp circa '60s that were already in CommonLisp and Scheme 30 years ago...
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