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Name: sage 2012-11-04 19:02

There isn't one popular technology that couldn't be better replaced by lisp.

makefiles, project files
xml
json
javascript
html
text markup
soap
embedded scripting
database schemas
database design and implementation
database query languages
constraint satisfaction
symbolic manipulation
artificial intelligence
self programming programs
mathematical programming languages
numerical programming languages
mixing any combination of the above seamlessly into a single language

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-05 1:04

>There isn't one popular technology that couldn't be replaced by lisp.
True.
>There isn't one popular technology that couldn't be *better* replaced by lisp.
False.

It is true that you can replace most/any (I didn't read all of them) of those things with Lisp, because Lisp allows you to express pretty much anything, and usually rather well.

However, the formats/syntax we see today are specialized for their specific purposes, and are equal at all and better at some of the following things:
File size for the same representation
Difficulty to humans to comprehend
Efficiency to parse/execute/use

If you can refute this, that'd be interesting to see.

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