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I'm not sure Lucid was a great example of Common Lisp success because they eventually converted to being a C++ IDE supplier (albeit one based on Emacs, so still

I'm not sure Lucid was a great example of Common Lisp success because they eventually converted to being a C++ IDE supplier (albeit one based on Emacs, so still Lisp-related but not CL). I hadn't heard of L, but that seems in line with Brooks' earlier criticism that the language was too big.

lispm 7y ago
> because they eventually converted to being a C++ IDE supplier They followed the market. The Common Lisp product was great. > but that seems in line with Brooks' earlier criticism that the language was too big Lucid CL implemented all of Common Lisp and more. L is a Lisp for embedded systems. It's a subset of Common Lisp - nothing unusual.