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You are ignorant of reality, and the first thing that you ignore is that you are ignorant.

With Lisp you don't even need to write lisp code. You can write java, c++,c, swift code... using lisp.

That is , you can write lisp code without people realizing you are writing lisp code. The only thing they will notice is that your code looks almost too perfect, too well formatted and justified, are extremely productive and never make mistakes.




How can one write C for example using lisp? Are you talking about compiling to C?


Sometimes people write Lisp code and use translators to C or C++. Some of that code then will be maintained in C / C++. Some of these tools were custom developed, but there existed also specialized Lisp to C translators, which produced 'maintainable' code.

For example the first version of the .net garbage collector was written in Common Lisp and then translated to C++. Since then it was maintained and enhanced in the C++ version.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150307034829/http://blogs.msdn...


Interesting, I was not aware of this, thank you.




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