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Re:The Nature of Lisp (2006) by chucksmash on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @10:55AM (#9576717)
Truer for some languages than it is for others...

"Oh god, syntactically significant white space!"

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Re:The Nature of Lisp (2006) by acc54321 on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @12:36PM (#9577473)
I'm more bothered by Python's lack of homoiconicity (thus no good macro facility) and poor performance when compared to Common Lisp.

Python feels a bit like a toy Lisp with all the adult parts hidden.

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