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Many ideas that come from lisp, and for which lisp was long ridiculed, are now mainstream, like garbage collection, closures, a big runtime, a huge library (nowadays lisp is criticised for its small library), typed data (instead of typed storage), exploratory development in an interpreter coupled with an optional compiler...

I don't consider languages with these features lisps, but I think the GP's statement is only quite mildly hyperbolic.




That's not a revival of lisp itself, just it's ideas becoming pulled into more mainstream languages. I wouldn't call Python having a REPL to be a lisp revival, but you can disagree.




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