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So...what happens to Common Lisp now? As well, any bets on who writes the first book?

• koolmoe 19y ago
  Common Lisp will keep chugging right along. You could ask on comp.lang.lisp if you wanted some really well-informed opinions wrt the impact of Arc on CL, but I wouldn't advise it unless your skin is thick and flame-resistant.
  • rms 19y ago
    I couldn't resist. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/thread/6bbce408fd6a10fa http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/...
    • mnemonicsloth 19y ago
      > How wrong is it to regard [Arc] as a new Morris worm that infects > MzScheme installations with unhygienic macros and empty lists that > serve as false?
• binarykeats 19y ago
  A somewhat different question is its impact on Scheme. My bet is mzscheme gets pretty popular this year.
• mcxx 19y ago
  Do you really think that Arc is a competitor for CL?
  • mnemonicsloth 19y ago
    Maybe not. But unlike CL, Arc has a snowball's chance in hell of competing with Java.
  • pg 19y ago
    It is for me. I literally wrote it so I wouldn't have to use CL anymore.
• dag 19y ago
  Here's the book answer: http://www.oreillymaker.com/link/7957/arc/ http://www.oreillymaker.com/link/7957/arc/