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I don't think anyone really thinks CL is all that special or that it is clearly "the best" LISP dialect -- it's just that part of the problem with LISP is that

I don't think anyone really thinks CL is all that special or that it is clearly "the best" LISP dialect -- it's just that part of the problem with LISP is that there are so many dialects and CL is a reasonable enough dialect and is kind of a standard, so why not use it?

ska 11y ago
"kind of" a standard? In some reasonable [1] sense it was the first language to be a standard. [1] - yes, there are other reasonable metrics