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How irritating, when people want to talk about things made in Lisp-the-language, and people instead come around to debate Lisp-the-religion.
by Blackthorn 5y ago
How irritating, when people want to talk about things made in Lisp-the-language, and people instead come around to debate Lisp-the-religion.
- metagame 5y agoI think it's hilarious, personally, and I'd disagree that the two are meaningfully distinct. Acting like any language that makes use of parentheses is a Lisp is similar to the Diogenes plucked chicken allegory. There are a lot of ways in which Clojure clucks like a chicken, to put it in terms of the metaphor. There is definitely room for a debate. It's like calling Postscript meaningfully a Forth just because the syntax is superficially the same. There's certainly someone in this thread who could give a good thousand word comment on that.