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by arnsholt 3282 days ago
I usually quip that Common Lisp and Perl are basically the same language, bit with different syntax. Not quite correct, obviously, but both languages give me that same pragmatic feel where having several approaches to the same problem is considered something desirable, not a defect.
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perl also grabbed a lot of things from CL, like moose(their MOP, at least so I hear).