But that’s not just 8 lines. If I were to try and run those 8 lines on their own then the compiler would fail because half of those functions are undefined. Even the article itself doesn’t claim the agent is only 8 lines long.

And once you start including the boilerplate code you end up with something that’s a lot more equivalent to the other languages you tried.

I love functional languages, and LISP specifically too. But the point of that article wasn’t even to say “LISP is better at code golfing than other languages”. so this doubling down on the SLOC that you’re doing isn’t even a relevant tangent.