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What makes Lisp difficult to read?
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this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2026
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I was tempted, but nobody learns anything from that.
I have the impression the author of the article has dabbled with Lisp but hasn't actually set up a reasonable development environment and written something non-trivial. That's not a great position from which to write critiques of a language.