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by jaddood 3382 days ago
LISP has no syntactic sugar. It only shows you the important parts, and it does so purely: it shows them just as they are.
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aidenn0 3382 days ago
Lisp not only has syntactic sugar (quote, backquote, all the sharpsign[1] macros), it is possible to add your own syntactic sugar (e.g. [2])

1: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_dh....

2: http://weitz.de/cl-interpol/

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