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Correct. That was bad wording on my part. I meant it in the sense of "it survives at a scale proportional to the fraction of it that is unique". It used to be
by kqr 1y ago
Correct. That was bad wording on my part. I meant it in the sense of "it survives at a scale proportional to the fraction of it that is unique".
It used to be that things like GC, REPL, flexible syntax, the cond form etc. made Lisp unique, but these days the list is down mainly to homoiconicity (and an amazing hacker culture).
- vindarel 1y agothe image-based REPL, including the interactive debugger, is still unique (matched maybe by Smalltalk), CLOS and the condition system too… pair them with stability, fast implementations, instantaneous compile-time errors and warnings a keystroke away, a Haskell-like type system on top of the language (Coalton), macros… and the whole is still pretty unique.