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Re:Dylan: the harsh realities of the market by foldr on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @10:33AM (#8227256)
Your comment is a bit confusing because you're basically explaining how Common Lisp was indeed a language designed by committee containing all sorts of compromises between competing vendors. That's what the OP was getting at.
Re:Dylan: the harsh realities of the market by ohyes on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @04:21PM (#8229307)
I wasn't trying to contradict that. I was trying to indicste that failures in it are due to how much the terrain has changed. By and large the standardization process was successful, the failure is that there haven't been any revisions since (and likely won't be).