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> I've argued elsewhere on HN that Common Lisp died It's not dead, it just smells funny. > not official enough for language implementers The HyperSpec is jus
by lispm 6y ago
> I've argued elsewhere on HN that Common Lisp died
It's not dead, it just smells funny.
> not official enough for language implementers
The HyperSpec is just a different text rendering -> here as Hypertext. The content of the official Common Lisp standard document is in the HyperSpec. As a language implementor it makes no/zero/null difference reading the HyperSpec or the official standards document in PDF format.
> Which, as anyone that had the misfortune of reading
I like it and have been using a lot.
> There were two free, open source Lisps available (CMUCL, CLISP)
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