ANSI CL standard, published in 1994. You wrote: > I'm not advancing a moral argument. I'm advancing an historical one. It's an amoral fact that Common Lisp wa

ANSI CL standard, published in 1994. You wrote: > I'm not advancing a moral argument. I'm advancing an historical one. It's an amoral fact that Common Lisp was standardized more than twenty years ago It was standardized 1994 with the ANSI CL standard. Exactly 20 years ago. > - before the commercial internet, Commercial ISPs started around 1989. > wide availability of systems suitable for distributed computing, Distributed computing was available earlier. > and even before it was clear that GUI's would win the war. Lisp supported GUIs much earlier. The Common Lisp standards group had even a subgroup for this topic. Anyway it's not clear what this all means, when CL was developed. Scheme, Objective C, C, C++, Smalltalk, were all developed before Common Lisp. What follows from that?