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Lumifer comments on Open thread, Nov. 23 - Nov. 29, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 24 November 2015 09:04:28PM 0 points [-]

as bare-bones as it was high-level

Umm... LISP is elegant and expressive -- you can (and people routinely do) construct complicated environments including DSLs on top of it. But that doesn't make it high-level -- it only makes it a good base for high-level things.

But if you use "high-level" to mean "abstracted away from the hardware" then yes, it was, but that doesn't have much to do with "writing out your thoughts".