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> I've got my own defstruct, my own defun, my own everything. So is Lisp, a programmable programming language.

• ced 18y ago
  See, there is this better-than-Lisp language in the sky, that's not made yet, call it sky-lang. I state that every sufficiently complicated Lisp program contains an ad-hoc, half-broken version of sky-lang. I don't want that. I want the real thing. Every language is "programmable", that's what the Greenspun rule says. Just because Lisp does it better than the others doesn't mean that it's actually close to what can be done.
  • icey 18y ago
    I think the "Lisp as a (potential) blub" meme is starting to catch on. You're starting to see some people release alternatives that are looking fairly viable. Two that are frequently discussed here are Arc and Clojure. Then there are guys like Mark Tarver, who are working on things like Qi to improve Lisp. I think it's great to see that after 50 years, "Lisp, the idea" is still growing.