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@nihilazo @eli_oat @technomancy @csepp The thing I like about lisps is the ability to build functions around snippets until I've written a whole program. It's interactive and pleasant. I agree that the advocacy is distracting. The book Let Over Lambda has interesting ideas but it's *so* convinced that lisp is always the best. I sometimes find it hard to read too. It's easy for different patterns to look visually similar.

Interesting @lambda_conf talk showing how Dialyzer ('discrepancy analyzer') offers gradual typing for Erlang and Elixir: https://youtu.be/FXCMiQWnWu0 It's a neat type system: it uses 'success typing', (it assumes you're correct) and exotic features like ranges and non-empty lists!

I was slightly shocked when a Common Lisper first pointed out to me that macros are syntactic. For example, threading macros aren't limited to function composition. (->> "UTC" (current-time-string (current-time)) (lambda ())) This elisp is building a closure!