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Lisp is more powerful than other languages because it has macros It's a bit more complicated than that. The key idea is that programs are composed of lists.
by pg 17y ago
Lisp is more powerful than other languages because it has macros
It's a bit more complicated than that. The key idea is that programs are composed of lists. But that idea is tied to several others:
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- apu 17y agoFair enough, although I was asking a different question (not very clearly, I suppose). Is there a language X and a feature (or set of features) Y for which the following statement holds? "Language X is more powerful than Lisp because it has feature(s) Y."