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>Now, we could talk about why the LISP community is fragmented (...) The problem is they confused DSL building with language building and so multiple different

>Now, we could talk about why the LISP community is fragmented (...) The problem is they confused DSL building with language building and so multiple different general purpose dialects proliferated. The Lisp community isn't fragmented. There are two main lisp dialects (Common Lisp and Scheme), three if you want to add Clojure, and each of them has a faithful community.

todd8 7y ago
A fourth distinct Lisp is Emacs Lisp.
logicprog 7y ago
Well, yes, but look at how fragmented the Scheme community is. And then also, fragmentation between 3 dialects is still a good bit more fragmentation than most language communities have.