"Fluff" "FLUFF"???
If that's fluff then most of the rest of the web is fluff... oh wait.
Seriously, the web site is a very informative site about "Common Lisp" - a specific dialect of Lisp. It's right there when you click the link, big letters - "Common Lisp" - you can't miss it.
You could argue about the URL "lisp-lang.org" - but why?
Re:Common Lisp homepage
by WindowsFon4life on Friday May 11, 2018 @01:40AM
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"We are in the process of decoding the original format used for the CLHS."
This is a smell that highlights the above post it seems.
It's more of an issue at the interface of technology and licensing. The CLHS (Common Lisp Hyper Specification) is a very large, web based document written in the 80's and it looks like an old Geocities web site. I believe the CLHS license says that it's not allowed to be changed (to protect the standard - I believe - someone correct me please) and so the community is working from slightly older drafts and figuring out how to automate the conversion to something that looks more modern. It's not a problem with Common Lisp - it's a problem that HTML, the web and user expectations have been changing over the years. There's that permanence thing again.
So much innovation has happened since the CLHS that to put up a fluff site feels like an effort of "resurrection". When in reality the Lisp family has continued to evolve since then. To limit yourself to just CL, as I did, for a long time, results a bit of a 'losing my religion'. You'll be confounded by things long since solved, and in the end perhaps write all of "Lisp" off. Do yourself a favor and keep and open mind to the family, and not one common incarnation that predates some developers.