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I'm a total beginner, but for a long time I've felt that a Lisp of some sort should be King. But then there's all this talk about javascript this, node.js that. Isn't newLisp capable of doing what node.js does, only better?

When in Emacs, if I start newlisp mode, then call up a NL REPL, how can I find out what the REPL's "working directory" is? For example, (load "link.lsp") gives an error, but if I copy link.lsp to a ./newlisp directory, and give the full path: (load "/home/myhome/Programs/newlisp/link.lsp") it works....

I'm a total beginner, but I've read extensively about Lisp, functional programming, and distributed computing. I keep hearing that Lisp languages can rewrite/update their own code while running, but I can't wrap my brain around that. For example, the famous "Lisp at JPL" essay talked about redoing/r...