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There is already a ki lisp (a smaller subset of Qi lisp) that is the foundation of shen lisp.

http://www.shenlanguage.org/learn-shen/shendoc.htm#KI

It's actually named KL (with a lower-case L), but yes, that was close.

What's the difference? I mean, Shen is ported to JS, and doesn't require Node. Can it play with JS like KL? Shen is pretty cool with a built-in, functional Prolog too, and static typing you can turn on or off.

Shen is pretty amazing, it's a full fledged functional language with lots of features and lots of compilation backends. I don't think there's a lot of ground for a comparison with ki, which is much more limited in scope.

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