>Imagine if you could plug your guitar into a computer, have that audio file, be a widget in a buffer, and then, pass it to other functions just like any other

>Imagine if you could plug your guitar into a computer, have that audio file, be a widget in a buffer, and then, pass it to other functions just like any other object, process it using, idk, map(car), and then sync it to a video using list functions, maybe with different implementations for the data structures under the hood. Amazing, thank you. This comment, and the replies to it, perfectly summarize what I am looking for in a complete LISP environment. True integration will treat not only text blocks/streams, but multimedia of any kind, seamlessly and as first-class citizens. The old LISP engineers understood that, but as another person said, the limitations of that time put significant barriers to that goal. We no longer have such limitations; it is time to revisit that model.