Land Of Lisp is out

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 10:06 -0700, namekuseijin wrote: 
> On 28 out, 07:02, p... at informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
> wrote:
> > Alain Ketterlin <al... at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
> > > Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l... at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes:
> > >>>> Would it be right to say that the only Lisp still in common use is the
> > >>>> Elisp built into Emacs?
> > >>> There is a new version of Lisp called Clojure that runs on the Java
> > >>> Virtual Machine (JVM) that is on the upswing.
> > >> Now is not exactly a good time to build new systems crucially dependent on
> > >> the continuing good health of Java though, is it?
> > > Nonsense. See
> > >http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ibm_and_oracle_to_collaborate
> > Last time I remember a corporation having developed a nice software
> > (NeXTSTEP), Sun joined it to make an "OpenStep", and a few years alter
> > it was over, bought by Apple, and morphed into MacOSX, and none of my
> > NeXTSTEP (or even OpenStep) programs compile anymore on my computers.
> > In the meantime, I switched to Linux.
> great, now you can use GNUStep:
> http://gnustep.org/

Heh, and good luck.  Compatibility between different implementations
stinks, and compatibility between different versions of GNUstep stinks.
And the documentation is hilariously terrible.