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James Robertson

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Re: Lisp 2003 = Lisp 1982 Posted: Aug 13, 2003 10:39 AM
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Ted Leung notes that people don't think that Lisp has evolved much since 1982:

Now, I've been posting away about the virtues of Lisp and Lisp like languages in an effort to educate folks about what Lisp can do. But I certainly don't think that there's no room for advancement. So it was a little disturbing to read this

Could he be right? Is old-style Common Lisp or Scheme actually the best that we can do?

in Greenspun's post. Not because Greenspun believes it, but because I think a lot of people in the Lisp community appear to believe it. It's not enough to say Python/Ruby/C#/Java 2003 = Lisp 1982

Many people have the same perceptions about Smalltalk - they read about it once a long time ago, maybe used it a bit, and have since decided that it's old and outmoded (never mind that Java and C# are pale imitations). I don't think the pothole we fell into in 1997 is as deep as the one Lisp is in, but we do need to get the word out further.

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