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Do you have any examples of difficult problems being solved in Lisp that can’t be as easily solved in other languages?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software

This problem is unlikely to be solved in any other language.


At least three quantum computing companies are using it to implement the control system and/or compiler tool chain for their quantum computers.

This whole HN post is about an NLP system that seems hitherto unrivaled.


Some stuff requires herculean efforts or are just very painful to do without macros. Clojure's implementation of CSP, core.async is one example. Lisp macros empowers experienced users.




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