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   Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 22:45:16 JST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

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   • Alfred M. Szmidt

   @amszmidt Common Lisp people were literally the most informed people in the planet about Lisp... omg... The orange site does it again...

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     Joe Oswald (jaoswald@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 22:45:16 JST Joe Oswald

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     • Alfred M. Szmidt

     @ekaitz_zarraga @amszmidt Common Lisp was also not trying to design a language from scratch, they were trying to broker a compromise between multiple implementors and users with existing code, essentially forced by the Dept. of Defense. They indeed knew what they were doing but "what they were doing" was not designing an ideal Lisp.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 22:45:17 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

     Orange site is funny, on the topic of the Ideal #Lisp:

     "> It would be something like a fusion of Clojure and Common Lisp, (...)

     Mine would be, too. Unfortunately, that's not possible. Clojure is one of those few languages actually designed by somebody who knows what they are doing."

     So .. the Lisp Machine folks, the Common Lisp people, Maclisp .. etc had no clue what they where doing.

     Oh yeah .. Clojure isn't a Lisp, now bite me.