[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:15:55PM -0800, SJS wrote:
>   
>>> Lisp needs a young "Torvalds" type leader to BREAK BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY 
>>> and
>>> create the BEST LISP POSSIBLE without giving one thought to past kruft.
>>>       
>> Already happened, didn't it? That's how we got Scheme.
>>     
>
> Amen.  I heard that but didn't know if it succeeded.  I haven't heard many
> people grumble about Scheme failing in their mission so I'll assume they did
> pretty well.  Time to start brain dumping anything I ever learned about Lisp
> now.
>   
Both the failure and success and failure of Scheme is such that people
often say that more people have written implementations of the Scheme VM
than have written Scheme applications. ;-)

--Chris

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