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I would kill for the opportunity to work on Lisp full time (well, maybe not kill, but you get the level of motivation).

The reason for it is in your quote - extremely regular syntax. No operators, no precedence, no special syntax forms - just a bunch of lists with symbols. I didn't realise how important it is until I started writing macros in Elixir and realised they are not quite "native", even if really powerful.

Lisp will be back, I feel certain of it.



You can use reader macros to add any operators or special forms you want to Common Lisp. Things can get especially crazy if you use a reader-macro to override '(




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