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Which language that is not a lisp or lisp dialect is closest to lisp? (alien.top)
submitted 10 months ago by AdPast9882@alien.top to c/lisp
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[–] lispm@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Smalltalk

[–] everything-narrative@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This.

Smalltalk's metaprogramming through classes-as-objects and code-as-objects is very much comparable to Lisp's.

Ruby is a modern example, with Pascal/Algol-like syntax with lots pf sugar. It has some very rich metaprogramming.

[–] lispm@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Smalltalk also has similar interactive development styles. One can build the application incrementally piece-by-piece. It has a residual graphical integrated development environment -> the development environment is a part of the program. It uses late-binding via message-passing. It starts and saves images (-> dumps of the heap contents, data and code). It is introspective & reflective (one can find out about the running program and can change it).