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usrnmyesterday at 12:34 PM1 replyview on HN

Well-designed abstractions do that in every language. And badly designed ones do the opposite, again in all languages. There's nothing special about Lisp here


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varjagyesterday at 1:30 PM

Sure but it's you who singled out Lisp here. The whole point of DSL is designing a purpose formalism that makes a particular problem easy to reason about. That's hardly a parallel to ever-growing vocabulary of standard C++.