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Well, many have argued that Clojure is that future lisp. (It's a lisp-1, incidentally)

• taeric 10y ago
  Yeah, Clojure was what I would expect to be the popular frontrunner here. Evidently, a few years ago arc would have been considered. My point was more that it intrigued me that the view given was not that one or the other was correct and everyone should move to it. More that both sides had lessons learned that could be taken to the next iteration. This seems different from most other language discussions which are about building on more and more to the given language. Maybe I'm just reading the tea leaves, as it were, incorrectly.
  • DonaldFisk 10y ago
    Arc is also a Lisp 1. There's also Mark Tarver's Shen (http://www.shenlanguage.org/ http://www.shenlanguage.org/). I don't know whether it's a Lisp 1 or 2, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's also a Lisp 1. I have read about Shen but not programmed in it, but I see it's added quite a few features absent from Common Lisp and the newer Lisps, which I think are worth having.
    • hellofunk 10y ago
      I decided to read up on Shen, and followed some reddit threads about it, and the consensus seems to be that it is a very inefficient language and many of its abstractions are not actually portable between platforms, i.e. the language changes a bit depending on where you use it.
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