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Which language that is not a lisp or lisp dialect is closest to lisp? (alien.top)
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[โ€“] timmem@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lua. The great secret of Lua is that it is lisp, without brackets, without bloat.

[โ€“] An_Origamian@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Quoting code is the only thing it lacks, but...

We still have not completely dismissed the idea of providing Lua with a macro system: it would give Lua extensible syntax to go with extensible semantics.

-- The Evolution of Lua (2007)