I maintained (I was not the original author of) a substantial web spider written in scsh for several years, and I found it a pleasant language to work in.
@simon_brooke Hey buddy, checked out #Scheme/#Scsh yesterday, super intriguing stuff. Actually, I've been digging into #Lisp and its dialects lately. Got curious about why there are so many dialects, you know?
Recently dabbled in #Clojure, which got me looking at Lisp in a new light. Unlike #Haskell, which is awesome for sure, #Lisp has been out of academia and in the market for quite a while... found it pretty cool.
@lobocode very old language, relatively easy to implement. And much used in computer science education, hence lots of variants. But mainly, age. Every site which installed #Lisp 1.5 ended up with a variant which was subtly incompatible with all the others... and that was sixty five years ago.
@Ardubal@lobocode True. We also have #Emacs Lisp for 39 years, Portable Standard Lisp for 44 years, #Scheme for 49 years, and #Interlisp for 56 years. Your point is?
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