"Check out the UNIX man for tail, grep, ... to see how strange above quote about 'unix philosophy' is." I think a lot of that is due to the untyped nature of u

"Check out the UNIX man for tail, grep, ... to see how strange above quote about 'unix philosophy' is." I think a lot of that is due to the untyped nature of unix. Everything is text, so you constantly have to specify details about what the actual input is. Not sure if that applies to lisp or not. Granted, that's not the only reason.