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seeing this comment on HN, made my PG, a Lisp book author, is amusing. I have to admit that while I don't do Lisp day-to-day probably my favorite Lisp book(s) were written by him. The practical hacker in me prefers Python, Java and C.

But the elegant hacker in me? Prefers Lisp. And PG captured that in his writing.

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IDK where the elegant but impractical (as it was a trade off). CL is a practical language. Consider loop, format, multiple values or the standard methd combination in CL.

While the only practical thing about python is that it has more libraries. Nevermind the fact that python scope is misdesigned even in Python 3!

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