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Except that Common Lisp is a kludge, a relic, and a sad victim of 30-year–old compromises. It's also practically abandonware, with no new specification since 19
by dpkendal 14y ago
Except that Common Lisp is a kludge, a relic, and a sad victim of 30-year–old compromises. It's also practically abandonware, with no new specification since 1994's ANSI Common Lisp. (Itself mainly clarifications to CLtL2.)
Modern Lisps — of which Clojure is currently the leader of the pack — would be a far better choice today.
- chimeracoder 14y agoNot to start a Lisp-vs-Lisp side-conversation here, but if we're going to go with a 'modern' Lisp, I'd prefer one that doesn't add syntax and which supports proper tail-call elimination. It's not like we have a lack of those, either - Racket's my personal favorite; aside from the robust standard library, the scoped languages give me hope that the 'Lisp curse' has finally been reversed.