> Is there something special about CL as compared to other Lisp dialects? cl is ansi standardized. it has several fast industrial strength implementations avai

> Is there something special about CL as compared to other Lisp dialects? cl is ansi standardized. it has several fast industrial strength implementations available that are self-hosted. it is both a high and low level language. it is FAST ... way faster than the dialects you named. its interactive development env is second to none > Elixir is to Erlang what Clojure is to Java i think LFE is meant to be that for Erlang. and i think that calling Elixir a lisp is stretching definitions quite a bit. as an asside there is an implementation of common lisp that resides on JVM - https://www.abcl.org/ https://www.abcl.org/