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by adamb_ 3308 days ago
At the end of the day, programming is symbol manulation, and nothing beats representing symbols like text.
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DonaldFisk 3307 days ago
No mainstream programming language even supports symbols as a data type. They process numbers and strings of characters.

Symbol manipulation is done well only by Lisp and its variants.

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lispm 3307 days ago
Javascript (with ECMAScript 6) supports symbols as a datatype.
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