No. There is real, palpable, practical, functional difference between working a Lisp REPL and a REPL in a non-homoiconic languages - Ruby, Python, Haskell, etc. Every single stage there in Read-Eval-Print-Loop differs.
Man, it gets so exhausting trying to convince every PL critic who grabs a single (or a couple) of axis of any language and tries to dispute the value of a language without ever understanding the holistic, overall experience working with it.
Like, I don't understand, do people think that tons of Clojurians or Common Lispers who fall in love with the language after decades of working and getting seasoned in literally dozens of different PLs are on some kind of delusional trip or something?
Guys, just take a gander at Clojurians Slack; see what people are working on, what kind of stuff they're building; check their profiles. Many of them are the battle-scarred veterans of coding. Sure, some of them may have wrong opinions, but surely they can't be all wrong, can't they?
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No. There is real, palpable, practical, functional difference between working a Lisp REPL and a REPL in a non-homoiconic languages - Ruby, Python, Haskell, etc. Every single stage there in Read-Eval-Print-Loop differs.
Man, it gets so exhausting trying to convince every PL critic who grabs a single (or a couple) of axis of any language and tries to dispute the value of a language without ever understanding the holistic, overall experience working with it.
Like, I don't understand, do people think that tons of Clojurians or Common Lispers who fall in love with the language after decades of working and getting seasoned in literally dozens of different PLs are on some kind of delusional trip or something?
Guys, just take a gander at Clojurians Slack; see what people are working on, what kind of stuff they're building; check their profiles. Many of them are the battle-scarred veterans of coding. Sure, some of them may have wrong opinions, but surely they can't be all wrong, can't they?