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		hayley-patton on Jan 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Tour of the Lisps > To optimize this further, you need implementation dependent code and replace abstractions of S-expressions with native machine code This can be done by a program called a compiler. There are many compilers for Lisp. (In other words, the same argument applies to every language ever which doesn't exactly correspond to machine code.)

a2code on Jan 30, 2024 [–]

And yet to extend Python, for example, you write code once. To extend Lisp, you have to extend a multiplicity of implementations you find relevant.

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