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To say nothing of vitally important format expressions like

  (format t "~{~a~^, ~}" list)


And of course the stuff necessary for word-wrap-in-`format`:

    (format t "~{~<~%~1,40:;~A~> ~}"
      '("these" "words" "will" "be" "wrapped" "to" "40" "characters"))
and the other `format` insanity in: http://cybertiggyr.com/fmt/fmt.pdf


Behold the mighty power of CL format!! I wonder if the format string language, aka "line noise", is turing complete...




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