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		rat on Aug 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's Special About Lisp? popularity, culture and ease of sharing libraries(ex. cpan) for one. But also its not that its great for writing libraries but that its great for writing libraries that extend the language.

anghyflawn on Aug 3, 2011 [–]

I think that Zach Beane is doing a stupendous job with quicklisp. Of course it's nowhere near CPAN at this stage, but it's a tremendous step forward compared to, say, plain asdf-install.

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