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> Unlike CL, there's never a parser or an interpreter hidden in there

Ive never ever run into this problem in the years of writing common lisp. Can you show me an example code that has this? I wager you cannot and you are writing poopoo about something you know poo about and want it to be true just because you are too lazy to move beyond knowing poo

> But this kind of power just isn't conducive to maintainable code.

I can usually run code decades old in common lisp. In fact this is one of its well known features. How much more maintainable can it possibly get :)






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