Please do show the equivalent of those ~8 lines in the other languages you think of so we can explicitly compare :) I gave it a try in the other languages I know, the Clojure one I have still ends up the smallest and fastest to comprehend.
replyBut that’s not just 8 lines. If I were to try and run those 8 lines on their own then the compiler would fail because half of those functions are undefined. Even the article itself doesn’t claim the agent is only 8 lines long.
replyAnd once you start including the boilerplate code you end up with something that’s a lot more equivalent to the other languages you tried.
I love functional languages, and LISP specifically too. But the point of that article wasn’t even to say “LISP is better at code golfing than other languages”. so this doubling down on the SLOC that you’re doing isn’t even a relevant tangent.