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> E.g. Lisp, along with PG, is the reason why HN is good. Many of HN's features simply wouldn't be easily accomplished without it

Could you expand/elaborate on this? I've never viewed HN as particularly complex, just tastefully designed with a good community.

I never read the Arc source but I bet what he means is how comments are laid out in memory which you can see is reflected with direct links:

I'm not sure why that would be impossible in a none-lisp, just less elegant.