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Ugh, please let Common Lisp be. There's enough bondage & discipline languages already so it is nice to have CL on the opposite side of the spectrum.


Why would anyone need CL when we have JavaScript?! I think the latter has even less bondage & discipline in it.


And you can even sweeten it with hygienic macros ;) (http://sweetjs.org/)

...but to be honest, in everyday work Javascript feels a lot like a bondage and discipline language, because it lacks so many features and in practice you always use a restrictive "coding guideline" and a linter configured for the maximum strictness you can have, so you end up with a pretty verbose, retarded and restricted dynamic language. In order to keep your sanity and be able to work in a team in Javascript you basically have to throw away the baby and keep the bathwater to work with :)




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