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... Yes. Of course they can.

Lisp is usually an academic language, which means research into type systems and type safety frequently takes place in it.

ACL2 is a theorum prover written in Common Lisp [0]. And not just a random project either, but something AMD, ARM, IBM, etc. have used.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACL2




This is not a practical language with dependent types tho lol




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