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> I'd never call CL a "dinosaur language". It's a dead horse and people can't help but beat on it as they pass by. I wouldn't call it a dinosaur language eith
by agentultra 13y ago
> I'd never call CL a "dinosaur language".
It's a dead horse and people can't help but beat on it as they pass by.
I wouldn't call it a dinosaur language either. The specification of Lisp that we call, "Common Lisp," was ratified by ANSI in 1994 -- putting it almost neatly between ANSI C (1989) and ANSI C++ (1998). Common Lisp just has a longer history than those two languages so it tends to get flack from the young'uns and ignoramus' for being, "old and crufty."
It's a small community but there are plenty of libraries, tools, and compilers under active development.