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How can you provide a REPL language without analyzing it at runtime? Write Lua random syntax in the REPL? Not a great improvement over C++. Not to mention that you'll probably use …

Well, dynamic queries by end users is the main goal here. Your static helper functions are completely unusable in that context. Analysing a query and generating code at runtime is …

It's allegorical in the sense that this is general Lisp technique useful not just in this case. The DSL is targeted at (non programmer) end users and supposed to be fired through a…

Implementing a "simple virtual machine" for a particular task is greenspunning[1]. Introducing a JIT library is work, complexity, debug and portability issues. LLVM compiles much s…

I was more after > The question is whether you want that sort of power in day-to-day programming It's good to use the least powerful mechanism, no doubt. But it seems you are tryin…

"we should always use the least powerful mechanism that will accomplish our goal" I like this when implementing something for non proficient users. But when it comes to providing t…

So where's Haskell's advanced object system or the restart/condition system that Common Lisp has? Even its performance is hardly on par with CL for all the flexibility of the latte…

I'm yet to see a "modern" (statically-typed) language with random syntax whose macro-like facilities are actually usable by mere mortals. My observation is that in practice lisp pr…

Static languages are still complete blubs compared to lisps as far as practical metaprogramming goes. And Common Lisp's type system is much less of a blub in that regard.

Looking at https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages/re... Common Lisp is beating on performance surprising number of static languages too. Despite being more dynam…

Depends on the machine. With https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi you can explore arbitrarily large file in instant.

Thanks for the link!

OT Emacs clunkiness/outdated architecture...give me a break, minimal core with lisp interpreter on top giving programmable and extensible platform next to none is still what...30 y…

Well, there has been lexical-let in the cl package for quite a while.