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> In short, Julia is very similar to Common Lisp, but brings a lot of extra niceties to the table

This is probably because Jeff Bezanson, the creator of Julia, created a Lisp prior to Julia, which I think still exists inside Julia in some fashion

https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp

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The Julia compiler frontend I believe is written in lisp.

Only the parser is, and it was recently re-written in Julia and in the process of being merged.

technically both the parser and the lowering stage are currently in lisp. The parser has been ported, but the lowering is more complicated and has not yet been re-written.

Can be accessed with:

  julia --lisp

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