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3. Lisps optimize tail calls, leading to easier and more efficient recursion. This does tend to increase depth of code.

4. The lisp punctuation style closes all levels on a single line, where most C code guidelines close one level per line. This leads to a "thick" chunk of close parens that students of lisp find harder to read at first.




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