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by baq 375 days ago
Why more games aren’t being developed in lisp is… perhaps not beyond me, but game development missed a turn a couple times.
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That is basically what they do when using Lua, Python, C#, Java, but with less parenthesis, which apparently are too scary for some folks, moving from print(x) to (print x).

There was a famous game with Lisp scripting, Abuse, and Naughty Dog used to have Game Oriented Assembly Lisp.

I had exactly the same title in mind, remember my very young self being in shock when I learned that it was lisp. If you didn't look under the hood you'd never be able to tell, it just worked.