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Lisp has one of the most powerful macro systems.

Also when people say Lisp in 2025, usually we can assume Common Lisp, which is far beyond the Lisp 1.5 reference manual in capabilities.

In fact, back when I was in the university, Caml Light was still recent, Miranda was still part of programming language lectures, the languages forbidden on compiler development assignments were Lisp and Prolog, as they would make it supper easy assignment.



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