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Message from discussion Being "not Lisp" is a feature?

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On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:01:55 -0800, Shantanu Kumar wrote:

> And then comes this (Paul Stadig's tweet, RT by Stuart Sierra :)
> 
> http://language-comparison.s3.amazonaws.com/comparison.html
> 

>> Not Not Lisp (Ruby/Python/Java)

Though actually, in Lisp dialects double-negation of something is just 
true, not the original item :)

user> (not (not 'lisp))
true

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