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by zozbot234 1543 days ago
It's not crashing at runtime, it's crashing at compile time. Or rather, a purely REPL-focused language like Lisp dispenses with the phase separation between compile- and run-time altogether. But then this applies just as much to dependently-typed languages, which come from the "compile time type safety" line of research. You can't be okay with those while dismissing Lisp.