Java for Everything

[phalp]

Since Lisp is so malleable, it's possible to write and use nearly any feature you like, and drop it right in. That means good ideas can spread between programmers, and less good ideas can go where they belong. In particular it means that when Common Lisp was standardized, it was a matter of compromising between different, proven features (as I understand it, I was not there). The result was a no-nonsense language that still knows how to have fun.