> Or maybe Lisp is so pure that it embodies both Light Side and Dark Side, like a god that spawned the programming universe.

This isn't so far off, considering that some people consider the "Lisp in Lisp" bit from the 1.5 manual to be the "Maxwell's Equations in Software":

https://michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equation...

Kind of agree, but in my view preventing the programmer to make mistakes is futile. I have seen awful stuff in languages made to prevent errors.

It's much better to give all the power to the programmer, to allow him to fix his mistakes rather than fantasising about preventing them.

Hah, didn't think of it this way... To me it was if it allows live updates (+support for them) or not :)

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