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Re:The evolution of Smalltalk: from Smalltalk-72 through Squ... by jascii on Thursday June 17, 2021 @10:46AM (#27540138)
"Same can be said for (Common) Lisp, which still live its half-life in form of Clojure, but is far away from the mainstream."

He says, on site written in Lisp, siting a language that proves the invalidity of his own statement.

For what its worth, while Lisp has never been a language with a big following in commercial development due to its focus on exploratory programming rather the delivering a "finished product", it's user base has actually been growing in the last 20 years or so.

Re:The evolution of Smalltalk: from Smalltalk-72 through Squ... by math-dev on Thursday June 17, 2021 @01:35PM (#27542186)
Indeed, the number of newcomers to Lisp is quite high in recent years and with QuickLisp it is a fantastic development platform