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Great write-up! Basically a person that was using more than 20 years of Lisp successfully and considered Lisp allowing higher productivity admits that there are now other languages that allows higher productivity than Lisp.

At the end when I read the comment:

> I think that if Lisp does not evolve it will die, and I > don't want to see that happen. I still think Lisp is > great. I also think it can be, and should be, improved.

I wonder what kind of improvements does the author have in his mind! If somebody knows please kindly enlighten me.



"Basically a person that was using more than 20 years of Lisp successfully and considered Lisp allowing higher productivity admits that there are now other languages that allows higher productivity than Lisp."

No, just a case of Stockholm Syndrome. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/d11c7e5619...

"I wonder what kind of improvements does the author have in his mind! If somebody knows please kindly enlighten me."

As Erik Naggum said: Erann Gat does not want to enhance Common Lisp, he [just] wants to feel better.

I encourage you to keep reading Naggum's line of thought: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/9edc8f7ee2...




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