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I think you yourself have missed the point when you say, "Common Lisp is a general purpose programming language that doesn't have the luxury of dedicating synta
by KaeseEs 15y ago
I think you yourself have missed the point when you say, "Common Lisp is a general purpose programming language that doesn't have the luxury of dedicating syntax to text-munging the way AWK does". The whole idea was to make a dialect that did have that luxury as a gateway to Common Lisp.
- merlincorey 15y agoClearly, AWK is the future winner, since it has implemented Lisp[1][2]! ---- [1] https://github.com/darius/awklisp https://github.com/darius/awklisp [2] http://awk.info/?AwkLisp http://awk.info/?AwkLisp
- finnw 15y agoBy that rule, Greespun's Tenth Rule (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule) implies that C has already won.