[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 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
