You seriously think that C is an improvement over Algol?
Are you really saying that Common Lisp and Scheme are that much more similar to primitive Lisps than C is to Algol-68? That isn't my impression at all. I'd say Clojure is to Scheme as C# is to C, roughly speaking.
Re:I Miss Lisp
by loewenskind on Monday December 13, 2010 @06:31AM
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Since Lisp actually has changed a lot over the years, I guess what you're saying is that they should have changed the name every so often?
Take the evolution of C, for example. First, you had ALGOL, but it had problems. So someone created CPL. But that had problems, so then we had BCPL. Then B. Then C. That’s five separate languages! People on the imperative side of the language divide were willing to throw stuff out and start from scratch, over and over, until they got it right.
Lisp advocates were not.
Fortunately, the creation of Clojure suggests that a willingness to change is finally making its way into some areas of the greater Lisp community.