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> Python and Ruby both don't have that.

Python and Ruby have first class functions, garbage collection, dynamic typing, and many other advanced dynamic features, so there is definitely a similarity between them and Lisp. However, the fact that they don't have code as a first class object is definitely a major limitation. In Lisp essentially everything is first class and manipulable at run time.




Sure, they are similar. It would be very strange, however, to argue that they are fragmentations of Lisp in the sense that Ocaml and SML are fragmentation of ML. They may share ideas since they are in the same semantic family (dynamically typed) but that's about the extent of it.




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