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Is there a specific purpose for heterogeneous lists?

Coming from a C# and Java background, I'm used to my lists being homogeneous, and that makes sense to me. When I started picking up Lisp, I noticed that the lists can be heterogeneous. When I started ...
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Can you name some pattern matching languages for non-strings?

Regular expressions and are popular matching patterns in strings. What similar handy languages exist to match other data structures? I know XPath for XML trees, but I have not seen use of it for other ...