Lisp's Native Capabilities

Commenters emphasize how Common Lisp and other Lisp dialects provide the discussed features out-of-the-box, often joking about reinventing Lisp or its superiority in interactive development and compilation.

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zekrioca Aug 24, 2025 View on HN

Other than Lisp, is it possible to do this in other languages?

TeMPOraL Feb 25, 2019 View on HN

Common Lisp does that for breakfast :).

agumonkey Jun 4, 2017 View on HN

As if Lisp needed more exposure..

lugus35 Jan 30, 2016 View on HN

With Lisp you get that out of the box

yogthos Mar 22, 2019 View on HN

We are talking about a Lisp here...

slondr Mar 1, 2021 View on HN

Common Lisp, as should be expected

guicho271828 Apr 17, 2019 View on HN

Sounds like Lisp Machine Lisp reborn.

rahimnathwani Jul 22, 2019 View on HN

Wow, not just any computer code, but Lisp code!

voldacar Apr 13, 2020 View on HN

i think there are some common lisp implementations that do this

TeMPOraL Aug 15, 2011 View on HN

Common Lisp. Because, why not? ;).