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What you link to is an example of something that you can only really do in Lisp, yes. However, using nested lists to represent an HTML document - which is what
by foldr 5y ago
What you link to is an example of something that you can only really do in Lisp, yes. However, using nested lists to represent an HTML document - which is what I was actually talking about - is not something that you can only do in Lisp.
In the version of English that I speak, “features unique to Lisp” does not mean “features that no language had prior to Lisp” or “features that were inspired by Lisp” but rather “features that no language other than Lisp has”.
- User23 5y agoIn the English that you speak is that set of features non-empty? It’s empty in the English that I speak, given that there is no feature in Lisp that some language or other hasn’t included by now. I’m trying to steelman and failing here, maybe you can help me out? I don’t want to be left thinking that you’re less than intellectually honest.
- foldr 5y agoLots of languages have nested lists that can be used to represent the structure of an HTML document. This feature is not unique to Lisp. That’s all my original post said. It’s unclear to me which part of this you disagree with.