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> impractical compared to better modern languages

How much did 'they' pay you to say that? :D

But seriously Lisps are by far the most advanced programming languages. They just take a huge amount of effort to learn.

How much did 'they' pay you to say that? :D

I wish.

Seriously though, most modern languages have Lisp features. Even Java 8 will get Lambdas. Quite a few languages have macros. Many languages have eval and REPLs.

Right now I'm playing around quite a bit with Haxe. Cool language, static typing (w/ type inference), pattern matching, closures, macros, and compiles to half a dozen languages and nearly every platform known to mankind...

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