alt Hacker NewsThe funny thing about Lisp is that writing a Lisp interpreter is significantly fewer keystrokes than correctly installing Common Lisp and its tooling. The ratio of lisps to lisp programmers may actually be above 1.
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pfdietz • today at 6:08 PM
Lisp interpreters are easy to write; a performant and standard compliant Common Lisp system is considerably harder to write.
this is definitely true for forth (: