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Re:Why Lisp? by kazinator on Thursday May 07, 2015 @04:39PM (#9508127)
Any real world problem solved in Lisp, relative to being solved in Python, eliminates the superfluous problem of Python being involved: a syntactically Fortran-like cumbersome scripting language with somewhat Lispy semantics.

Note that you can program the CL system by expressing yourself in Python:

https://common-lisp.net/project/clpython/

Common Lisp is not only a language, but also a platform (analogous to Mono or JVMs). It has a model of computation: programs expand fully down to a set of special forms, which then compile. You can build languages on top of this.

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Re:Why Lisp? by GFK_of_xmaspast on Thursday May 07, 2015 @05:38PM (#9508477)
So your answer is 'I have no such example' ?
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Re:Why Lisp? by nefreat on Thursday May 07, 2015 @09:47PM (#9509572)
I think it would be pretty hard to write something like algo.monads in python when macros are not available.

https://github.com/clojure/algo.monads

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