Re: Lisp is Sin

Nathan Baum wrote: 
The real reason Lisp has the best OO out there has nothing to do with
CLOS and everything to do with Lisp. Lisp is the greatest common
denominator of programming languages, and can act like any other
programming language if you have the time and know-how to make it so.

Once again, just because a better language hasn't been invented doesn't make Lisp the Supreme Language Ever. I admit that Lisp can emulate (with varying amounts of work) any inferior language so far created, but I doubt it will be able to emulate its superior language - when that is created - without creating half of a buggy and slow compiler/interpreter for that language.
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