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		DigitalJack on Nov 10, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lumo – A fast, standalone ClojureScript REPL that ... I would start with lisp flavored erlang, and add clojure's immutable yet fast-copy data structures. They are based on work by Phil Bagwell, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_array_mapped_trie http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/64398/files/idealhashtrees... You might do better to create a Lisp Flavored Haskell (if one hasn't been started already). I'm sure haskeller's would be offended by the idea, but it already uses HAMT.

sordina on Nov 10, 2016 [–]

Why do you think Haskellers would be offended by this?

kod on Nov 10, 2016 | [–]

Because they hate parens so much they spent a $ to eliminate them.

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