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Lisp is more powerful than other languages because it has macros

It's a bit more complicated than that. The key idea is that programs are composed of lists. But that idea is tied to several others:

http://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html




Fair enough, although I was asking a different question (not very clearly, I suppose). Is there a language X and a feature (or set of features) Y for which the following statement holds?

"Language X is more powerful than Lisp because it has feature(s) Y."




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