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Have you considered that the notebook is an evolution of a repl, with improved visualization and feedback, for for analysis-heavy work? The problem starts when notebooks are used for development and production.

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no because its not supperior to a proper lisp repl which you use to develop and interact with a live production system

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93pr...

Did you mind checking the availability of people with lisp skills vs most other languages used in research and DS? Or the availability of libraries and pace of evolution? If your solution is to teach lisp massively and have everyone just build their tooling, can you explain why it hasn't happened yet, despite lisp being around much longer than most languages in use in this field - and many attempts at what you're suggesting?

I have a sense that there are a quite lot more people with Lisp skills than there are jobs. It should be easy to find Lisp people. And I mean reasonably young people; not like pulling Cobol people out of retirement. Lisps continue to attract new people.

lisp is not only feature-cool its even retro-cool :)

i only said lisp repl is superior. far more superior actually. whether its popular is a different matter. there are people perfectly content with subpar technology and thats ok. however it doesnt hurt to know that there are alternatives

R is lispy enough for what they're suggesting.

hardly. look into whats available through slime with common lisp as an example of an advanced repl

I have done, thanks. R has most of what you need to replicate this, and is also a widely used DS language.

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