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Re:What is a programmable programming language? (2019) by Zak on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @09:31AM (#31667062)
> by then lisp might have fallen into the abyss of history

I don't think so, because being a lisp is a trait of a language rather than a specific language. Scheme is a lisp. Racket is a lisp. Clojure is a lisp.

People keep making new ones because lisp continues to be a useful idea. It keeps not quite going mainstream, the reasons for which have been subject to much speculation. It's most likely that there will be some semi-popular lisp in 50 years.

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Re:What is a programmable programming language? (2019) by lispm on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @12:05PM (#31669419)
There are languages which have Lisp in their name for a reason: Emacs Lisp, Visual Lisp, ISLisp, Common Lisp, ... Historically Interlisp (see https://interlisp.org ), Standard Lisp (see REDUCE), and many others.
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