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> some unique appeal It's a standard for the main Lisp language with multiple very different implementations, including commercial offerings. For example at l

• nerdponx 6y ago
  The big appeal for me is that Lisp is just weird enough to be fun, and dynamic enough to be expressive with rapid prototyping, but also has mechanisms to write more-structured programs and has quite a lot of batteries included, even if they are somewhat oddball or not necessarily portable across implementations. SBCL with Qlot feels almost like Python to me in terms of how quickly I can bang out a simple but working program. But unlike Python I get to use macros and powerful iteration constructs like DO.