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I'd suggest the last great Lisp wasn't ZetaLisp, but (prefix-syntax) Dylan, which was designed by many of the same people. It's essentially a Scheme plus CLOS "
by eschaton 10y ago
I'd suggest the last great Lisp wasn't ZetaLisp, but (prefix-syntax) Dylan, which was designed by many of the same people. It's essentially a Scheme plus CLOS "all the way down," with a cleaned up subset of the core of Common Lisp. Find the book from 1991-1992, it's worth reading.
- dschiptsov 10y agoIn that case it is PLOT3 by David Moon (Google it).
- eschaton 10y agoNope. Moon apparently bought into the "people don't like Lisp because of the parentheses, so we should make a Lisp that looks more like ALGOL and people will like it" line like the rest of the Dylan core team. IMO if it doesn't have homoiconicity, it's not a Lisp, and macros will be much more difficult.