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		eru on July 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The most remarkable legacy system I have seen > I'd expect most lisps to suffer in the same way. Why? Eg Scheme or even the uglier Common Lisp are quite disciplined. And Clojure ain't too bad either. As far as I can tell, Lispers don't usually go around monkey-patching things.

barrkel on July 13, 2020 [–]

Elispers certainly do!

eru on July 14, 2020 | [–]

Oh, definitely. But no one in their right mind would use emacs lisp. Or any dynamically-by-default scoped Lisp.

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