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Re:Why I Chose Common Lisp by pjmlp on Sunday January 12, 2025 @01:39PM (#42675691)
Yeah we get glimpses of it across JVM, .NET, PowerShell, Fish and so on, but hardly as it used to be.

We do have Pharo, Allegro and such, but their spotlight opportunity is gone.

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Re:Why I Chose Common Lisp by andsoitis on Sunday January 12, 2025 @10:09PM (#42679668)
> We do have Pharo, Allegro and such, but their spotlight opportunity is gone.

Do you think the paradigm is a dead end?

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Re:Why I Chose Common Lisp by pjmlp on Monday January 13, 2025 @03:15AM (#42681234)
In the world of commercial software, sadly yes, compare the idea of Dynabooks with the tablets that we actually got.
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