Nicolas Martyanoff on Nostr: It is often said that one of the upsides of Lisp is its homoiconicity. And yet this ...
It is often said that one of the upsides of Lisp is its homoiconicity. And yet this is not true for #CommonLisp: various types have printed representations which are not readable, for example hash tables. Erlang is surprisingly better at this.
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