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> Of course, there are tradeoffs. This works beautifully for personal tools and small-team scenarios. It doesn't scale to massive collaborative systems where you need rigid interfaces between components. But I suspect many of us are solving problems that don't actually need that complexity.

Spreadsheets. If you squint the right way, they embody the lisp principles for the non-programmers' world.




MS Excel has IF(this, then, else), AND(expr, expr, ...), OR(expr, expr, ...) and more recently LAMBDA.




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