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And that has what exactly to do with Lisp? Pretty much irrelevant to the language itself.

Well a major topic of the article is about the creativity that lisp affords compared to other languages. I’m pointing out that there are much more ultimate restrictions on creativity than programming language. I.e. whether the “powers that be” even allow you to program

Also looping back to the article, it speaks about how lisp and smalltalk have fallen out of fashion which can explained by the more ultimate loss of permission and desire for creativity

I rather be creative for mobile devices while using Swift, Objective-C, Java or Kotlin, with their Smalltalk and Lisp influences from Xerox PARC work in what an IDE is supposed to be and language frameworks, than being stuck on the C and C+ mentality[0] that they are the only true way to develop for small devices.

[0] - I really typed C+ and not C++ on purpose.

Sure, I’m not saying embedded programming in C is the way to go. That’s just a totally different thing to mobile app development

That's why you should compare languages in proper environments, not make an irrelevant point about some mobile development platforms.

Is it irrelevant to creativity in programming and whether or not people use Lisp that the most commonly used computers in the world can't be programmed?

Yes, because that's not an issue with Lisp and therefore irrelevant for the comparison between Lisp and other languages.

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