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Re:Chez Scheme is now free by chubot on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @04:20PM (#11575291)
There's a big difference between "practical" and being the foundation of software (and I guess people ARE still trying to make that happen; it's not a strawman).

Emacs Lisp is probably a better example of practical.

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Re:Chez Scheme is now free by nickpsecurity on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @01:00AM (#11577927)
Or LispWorks or Franz Allegro (esp AllegroCache) that have made real money for years by letting people code circles around others with better tooling. Scripting languages have closed the gap a lot but not fully. I'd say at least two commercial tools are quite practical.
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