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Yes indeed, I really like this almost twenty year old article. It seems like I re-read it every several years. Lisp is in even better shape now than twenty yea
by mark_l_watson 7y ago
Yes indeed, I really like this almost twenty year old article. It seems like I re-read it every several years.
Lisp is in even better shape now than twenty years ago:
Application delivery is a solved problem. On the commercial side LispWorks and Franz have portable UI frameworks and application delivery mechanisms that are excellent.
On the open source side, SBCL and Clozure are excellent, with different strength. Both have robust application deployment capabilities.
In the non-Common Lisp world, Racket (Scheme) just keeps getting better, and also has a good application delivery mechanism and portable UI that looks great in macOS and not so good on Linux.
- dgb23 7y ago> Yes indeed, I really like this almost twenty year old article. Heads up, this was written in 1991 and we have 2020 now!
- mark_l_watson 7y agoYikes! You are correct. Thanks for the correction, even though it makes me feel even older: I have been using Common Lisp professionally since about 1982, a few more years makes that 40 years, using the same language.
- hcarvalhoalves 7y ago> Clozure Clojure
- al-king 7y agoClojure isn't a Common Lisp implementation, it's a different Lisp dialect with an emphasis on immutable data and interacting with host systems like the Java VM. This is Clozure: https://ccl.clozure.com/ https://ccl.clozure.com/
- kannmig 7y agoNo, Clozure is correct. OP is referring to Clozure CL, not Rich Hickey's Clojure.
- mark_l_watson 7y agoI used Clojure for a few years on two jobs, but in this context I did intend Clozure Common Lisp. I also wrote a small side project in Clojure about ten years ago http://cookingspace.com/ http://cookingspace.com/ that I used to track nutrients as percentage of daily requirement in my recipes.
- hcarvalhoalves 7y agoToday I learned!
- pjmlp 7y agoI don't consider it in better shape, given that only us the old timers are properly aware of LispWorks and Franz, and a large majority think SBCL is the only survivor left.