> concepts it is closer to traditional languages and in others it's not: it has fully introspective and reflective implementations, source-level interpreter im

> concepts it is closer to traditional languages and in others it's not: it has fully introspective and reflective implementations, source-level interpreter implementations, Lisp on various levels (instead of using a static VM infrastructure) -> Lisp implementations largely written in itself incl. its compilers, highly interactive with integrated condition handling, a dynamic object system, image-based development, ...