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Except most supercomputers have had Lisp and ML dialects experiments, because the hardware abstractions allows for easier scalabilitiy across cluster nodes, either on the same hardware or across the network.

Lisp represents source code as lists. It’s a huge myth that modern Lisp just uses lists as the only data structure.

Even older lisps had interesting data structures. Star Lisp (*Lisp) on the Connection Machine had vectors. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Lisp

Every Common Lisp already has vectors.

STARLISP is an extension of Common Lisp. Pvars in STARLISP are basically similar to vectors with elements spread over different processors.

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