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I didn't interpret OC as calling Julia lispy, as much as saying that Julia is matched to SBCL's interactive machine code generation and inspection. I don't have a dog in that particular fight; I've barely touched either language.

Except, macros. I have never seen macro wizardry come anywhere near SBCL without homoiconicity.

edit: pre-coffee reading comprehension, apparently. The word lispy is _right there_ in OC.

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To clarify, I was trying to say that both

- the julia runtime does a good job competing with sbcl with regard to interactive code generation. I'm not familiar enough with sbcl (or julia, really) to rank one over the other -- but from what I have seen, they're in the same ballpark.

- julia feels like a lisp to me, due to many features of the language and how much it emphasizes repl based development. I can respect that others may not feel the same -- it's a subjective matter.

I'm not heavily invested in either -- I just think they're both nifty.

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