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Re:The German School of Lisp (2011) by vindarel on Saturday November 12, 2022 @08:57AM (#33573079)
For the same reason as there are many algol-like languages.

The production-ready lisps are:

- Common Lisp: this one is standardized and the ecosystem is NOT fractured. Many implementations exist and work in parallel: SBCL, CCL, LispWorks, ECL, ABCL…

- Clojure (though there is also ABCL and I keep hearing good things about LispWork's Java interface)

- Schemes: some coming from university, with a fractured ecosystem.

Of course, nobody uses Arc for serious stuff (but we can have its syntax in CL and probably in Racket too).

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Re:The German School of Lisp (2011) by weatherlight on Saturday November 12, 2022 @09:49AM (#33573562)
There's also LFE which is rock solid and production ready.

(Lisp Flavored Erlang)

https://github.com/lfe/lfe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LFE_(programming_language)

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Re:The German School of Lisp (2011) by jonjacky on Saturday November 12, 2022 @01:49PM (#33575834)
For the same reason as there are many algol-like languages.

I remember in the 1980s someone remarked that C and Pascal were more similar than Maclisp and Interlisp.

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