Re: Interesting developments since "Beating the averages"?

Tin Gherdanarra schrieb:

> I'm not sure if there isn't more to this. For one, there are all sorts
> of research projects that use specialized Schemes as implementation
> language because it is so easy to implement domain-specific langauges
> (concurrent, linear, for various vms, etc.) In a way this IS "tweaking
> the language". Then there are several
> CL implementation with different focus -- these implementations all
> adhere to the standard, but this external, independent standard
> is exactly the problem because it gets in the way of blessing any
> community-based module (like TCP/IP sockets and threads) as "the"
> implementation and including it in the standard distribution. In
> other words, Lisp lacks a benevolent dictator, and this is bad for
> standardizing wheels in a pragmatic way.

Lisp does not need a 'benevolent dictator'. You may need one.
But then you can always join the Python community.

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