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Greenspun's Tenth Rule, does every large project include a Lisp interpreter?

Greenspun's tenth rule (actually the only rule) states that: Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of ...
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Why is the c family the standard CS study regiment for Mathematics/CS programs instead of the LISP family?

I have been familiarizing myself with LISP for self improvement purposes. One of the things I have noticed is that LISP is much more within the paradigm of Mathematics than say C. The syntax and ...
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Is the Lisp “family” of languages any more closely related than the “C-like-syntax” family?

I was recently thinking about the large variety of lisp languages, specifically the fact that while they all have similar syntax, and could all in theory be implemented from the same small set of ...
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Is macros support in a programming language considered harmful?

The first abuse that comes to my mind in C is: #define if while But at the same time it is extremely handy and powerful when used correctly. Something similar happens with Common Lisp macros. ...