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No, it's not. It's nothing like Lisp and will never be, simply because it misses the biggest (arguably most important) feature of Lisp - homoiconicity.

But sure, if you squint your eyes - pretty much every single modern programming language would be "like a Lisp" Why? Because there's not a single programming language in use today that was not influenced by ideas first pioneered in Lisp.




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