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Episode 158: Rich Hickey on Clojure

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The Syntactic Complexity of Lisp

Lisp is so extensible regarding its syntax. There aren't many meta programming systems as easy to use as Lisp. I don't think it's about lists, everything is a list. In fact, everything is not a list enclosure. And when you write a transformer, you produce new data structures. Again, these very simple built in common data structures does make the meta programming much, much simpler.

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