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I think (today's) Lisp could be blub, but only if Lisps were to become the standard category of programming languages. Then some other more advanced meta-lisp that is a few layers of abstraction up, and applying some yet-undiscovered principles of computer science in its high-level semantics would be at the cutting edge, and the vanilla lisps would be mundane and practical-seeming.

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For some some Lisp-developers Lisp is blub relative to Haskell.

how come? could you give an example?

I've met Lisp-programmers which simple didn't understand the point of Haskell - all those arbitrary constraints (no IO, no mutation) which just required elaborate workaround (monads) to get back to square one. This makes Lisp "blub" (for them).

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