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Common Lisp hasn't seen any language updates since 1994 and yet people here keep talking about it.
by ndiddy 3y ago
Common Lisp hasn't seen any language updates since 1994 and yet people here keep talking about it.
- lispm 3y agoThe standard hasn't been updated. But progress happens in implementations and libraries.
- kazinator 3y agoSustained standardization mostly harms/ruins programming languages. That said, it would be good to see a Common Lisp standard which cleans up outstanding issues (like whether, when an exit point for a dynamic control transfer is chosen, are the inner exit points below it torn down before the transfer takes place, or tear-down-as-you-go?) And also standardize some common practices. A standard way to include special characters in strings would be nice. The C-like escapes perhaps: \n newline, \u123F for unicode and whatever.
- lispm 3y agoI totally agree.
- ativzzz 3y agoCommon Lisp is mostly an esoteric hacker's toy (unpopular statement here) and it falls into a unique niche that isn't used by many