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I think the common complaint is that that it isn't really Lisp all the way down - it's Lisp syntax that drives the JVM. Therefore, it is a False Lisp; it dresse

I think the common complaint is that that it isn't really Lisp all the way down - it's Lisp syntax that drives the JVM. Therefore, it is a False Lisp; it dresses like Lisp, and convinces the unwashed that it's Lisp, but it's actually leading us astray. See http://www.loper-os.org/?p=42 http://www.loper-os.org/?p=42 for more.

andreyf 17y ago
it's Lisp syntax that drives the JVM See, this wouldn't bother me so much if it assumed the user knew the JVM instruction set and built up abstractions around it. But no, that's not what it does. It creates another "language", meaning "obscuring abstraction" that isn't friendly to inspection.