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by grandempire 438 days ago
JavaScript and Python have adopted almost every feature that differentiated Lisp from other languages. So in comparison Lisp is just more academic, esoteric, and advanced.
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This is only true if you define "Lisp" as the common subset. If you look specifically at Common Lisp, neither Python nor JS come close in terms of raw power.