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Kind of a weird, cliche-informed rant here about lisp. To clarify, lisp simply offers functional programming by default and metalinguistic abstraction - most languages don't. So it tends to be used by people/organizations seeking higher-level organizational tools than functions/modules/classes or organizations looking to leverage functional paradigms. It's plenty stable and plenty dependable - just look at some of the names juxt has helped to adopt Clojure [1]. Or consider Netflix [2].

[1]: https://juxt.pro/#clients

[2]: https://speakerdeck.com/daveray/clojure-at-netflix



Except, clojure isn't LISP.




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