> The approach also seems to breed a certain level of flexibility that other languages struggle to match - I have seen software that does a better job of editin

> The approach also seems to breed a certain level of flexibility that other languages struggle to match - I have seen software that does a better job of editing text than Emacs, but I have not seen software more capable of taking on any challenge. I think the author would agree with you. In the last post of the series (https://blog.lfe.io/excerpts/2015/03/27/1101-the-hidden-origins-of-lisp-future/ https://blog.lfe.io/excerpts/2015/03/27/1101-the-hidden-orig...): > And here the answer arrives, not as some astounding epiphany, but again in humble simplicity: Lisp's fun and its beauty rest not only in its syntactic elegance but in its power of expression. This is specifically important for the adventurer: if you want to create something new, explore some new programmatic territory, you need tools at your fingertips which will allow you to do so flexibly and quickly, with as little overhead as possible. Otherwise the moment of inspiration can be to quickly lost, the creative process swallowed in a mire too heavy with infrastructure and process. Sadly it looks like their effort to translate SICP to LFE stalled out a long time ago.