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“Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me.”—David Thornley via http://www.paulgraham.com/quotes.html http://www.paulgraham.com/quotes.html

• dfischer 7y ago
  The actual graphs on the Tiobe can empirically show it's getting deader.
  • badcede 7y ago
    Lisp was around decades before "Tiobe", and will be for decades after.
    • pnako 7y ago
      Like BASIC, COBOL or FORTRAN (except less useful).
    • dfischer 7y ago
      That wasn’t the point. It’s losing popularity. It’s been in a downtrend that has never recovered. It’s only getting more and more esoteric. Maybe it’ll come back in fashion one day.