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by formerly_proven 1105 days ago
Arguably the value of Lisps has been diminished quite a lot with the advent of highly dynamic "multi-paradigm" scripting languages like Ruby and Python. The "Lisp superpower" has traditionally been that small, tightly coupled groups (quite often n=1, the most tightly coupled group) can achieve a lot very quickly without wasting a lot of time on "boilerplate". Those scripting languages enable largely the same thing.