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There are a number of other homoiconic languages floating about so I think that's much less an issue other than the fact that "lisp" is the poster child.

Alas, CL is an old, bloated nightmare. :-( :-)

I think the new poster child for "Lisp" is Clojure.

Also, for learning programming, I'm still a big fan of Scheme.

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Agree about Clojure. The main reason I didn't choose it is that I thought a good Perlis language should not require learning much that wasn't directly related to using the new paradigm. With Clojure, you have the whole Java platform to deal with as well.

Of course, there are tons of Java programmers out there and several really interesting languages for the JVM. I have thought that there should really be a list similar to mine, for people who are already working in the Java environment.

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