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I'd expect programming style to have a lot to do with it. Many modern languages are evolving toward Lisp and support ever more of its features. Generic programming and meta programming for instance.

(I think the tool used accounts for imports and defines.)

A section of SICP that doesn't get enough attention imo:

2.5 Systems with Generic Operations

https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/2_002e5.xhtml

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