LISP is so powerful you can embed an ML in it while still getting its benefits for your use case. Incremental, <i>per-function</i> compilation, easy macros, and live updates were my favorite features. There&#x27;s also been a ton of work running LISP&#x27;s fast. Subsets even compiled to hardware in the past, including SHard (still around) and DDD.<p>Example from sklogic that embeds ML in LISP
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