so to get more concrete, this manifests when people say (as we did, when young!) - if we can just make sure that all software is written in Lisp, all these hard problems will go away.
it's an easy conclusion to arrive at. we looked around the Lisp ecosystem at the time (this was twenty years ago), there were a lot of people who cared about language-level features for this stuff, we didn't see a ton of legacy code problems
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