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by chriswarbo 1801 days ago
> I mean LISP is one of the oldest languages with really weird features w.r.t to C-like languages but in practice we only see C-likes

Scripting languages are much closer to Lisp than to C (e.g. compare Python to Racket).

IIRC Ruby, Javascript and Smalltalk (the latter inspiring a lot of OOP languages) were all explicitly designed to be like Lisp.