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>CL is moribund, not unlike Smalltalk, APL, and COBOL. If someone wants to do some hobby/small-scale but complex programming in LISP, what kind of dialect shou

• lisper 4y ago
  Personally I do all my personal coding in CL but it's a matter of taste. Another word for "moribund" is "stable" and that can be a good thing. But it really is mostly personal preference. And you might want to add Clojure to your list of languages to consider. The reason I like CL is that I find it is a local optimum impedance match for my brain in language design space. But that is at least in part because I have been using it for 35 years so I am used to its quirks (of which there are many). But it also has lots of really nice features, some of which are still unique to CL and which I find indispensable to my coding style. Generic functions are at the top of that list, and a close second is the macro system.
  • baq 4y ago
    I'm afraid you're confusing 'stable' with 'stagnant'. (The dictionary suggests 'dying'... I won't go there ;))
    • lisper 4y ago
      CL is not stagnant. SBCL and Quicklisp are still active, and Franz is still a going concern.
• QuesnayJr 4y ago
  As a programming language, CL isn't moribund. There are several high-quality Common Lisp implementations. There's just no real chance of there being a revision of the language standard.