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janecoder··on Dcpu-lisp: a static Lisp that compiles to DCPU-16
But it does have Macros. Being able to write a macro that changes the AST is pretty awesome. Definitely a LISP.
janecoder··on Who Killed Prolog?
"Logic programming is a cool idea, but not that useful for most things"

Except that many regard Prolog as a precursor that little used language SQL.

janecoder··on ClojureScript vs Coffeescript
Given that the author writes the same physics-based app in both - it seems you're disagreeing with the author.
janecoder··on ClojureScript vs Coffeescript
This is Pacman in Clojurescript: https://github.com/mjg123/pacman

This is Pacman in Javascript (I couldn't find one in Coffeescript): https://github.com/macek/google_pacman

janecoder··on The Other Lambda The Ultimate - Using the Y Combinator on Functions
I like how they pull it out step by step. The Y-Combinator just sort of falls out of the process.