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by devjab 644 days ago
Isn’t that sort of the point? It makes the argument impossible to dispute. If it’s not slow or big-ridden, then it’s just not sufficiently complicated. Which you’re correct to call out.

I think what makes it work is that Common Lisp very quickly becomes a faster way to do things because of how insanely efficient it is.