[Seattle] Fwd: Seattle CL People?

Clint Moore clint at ivy.io
Fri Feb 13 18:10:25 UTC 2015


On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Brandon Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> As of a few years ago, my assessment of the Common Lisp universe was that
> anyone who once had the energy for standards, promotion, adoption, etc. is
> now too old, and past their generational energy, to bother with such
> things.  New generations learn their own things, and although they may use
> many design ideas of lisp, they're just not going to use Common Lisp for
> the most part.  For instance, Julia claims some lisp ancestry.
> http://julialang.org/
>
>
  It strikes me as rather sad that, while it's stylish to declare that a
language borrows ideas from CL, it's not stylish at all to actually use it.
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