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I can only agree that Common Lisp is in many ways a much better language than JavaScript. But JavaScript is much more popular and it has evolved into a lisp dir

• flavio81 9y ago
  >One question, you say "CL is very strongly typed". Then you also say "Optional type checks". Are you saying CL is optionally very strongly typed? Note that I wrote "optional static type checks". CL is always strongly typed. A character array, for example, stays as a character array. It can't be used directly in place of a byte array, for example. But what it allows, optionally, are type declarations. These, in implementations like SBCL, allow compile-time ("static") type checking. The declarations also allow big enhancements in code speed, because this produces code that is specific to a data type (you can always see the compiled assembly code for a lisp function by using the "disassemble" function)
  • galaxyLogic 9y ago
    I see