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by juki 3233 days ago
Common Lisp does allow one to declare types in order to have the compiler optimize the code. SBCL[0] in particular is known to be pretty good at that. Macsyma also lives on in Common Lisp as Maxima[1].

[0]: http://sbcl.org/ [1]: http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

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Though it does not really 'live', the Symbolics Macsyma also has been ported to Common Lisp in the 80s.