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Re: Common Lisp 3 proposal

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From: sgonedes1977@gmail.com (steve)
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Subject: Re: Common Lisp 3 proposal
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by: steve - Mon, 12 Jul 2021 00:31 UTC

Blake McBride <blake1024@gmail.com> writes:

> Greetings,
>
> Common Lisp is getting old.

we all die sometime.

> Technology marches on. I think a significant
> upgrade to CLtl2 is in order. Here are some ideas I have:

> Leave Common Lisp as it is except:
>
> 1. Functions and variables share the same namespace

huh?

> 2. Remove all of the Common Lisp function-specific functions that end
> up as duplicates because of #1.

huh?

> 3. Change to a mixed-case language. The base language is lower-case.

Ummm. that was 20 years ago.

> 4. Support real / native threads

yeah, they were called coprocesses until ...

> 5. Properly handle tail recursion

you must be kidding.

> 6. Improve on the ability to interact with the OS (sockets, etc.) - perhaps as
> an extension.

This I agree with! POSIX!

> These are just a few ideas. I think others can come up with more.
>
> Although some of Common Lisp's functions are ugly with awkward parameters, I
> think they're good enough for the most part and should be left as-is so as not
> to change the language anymore than is necessary.

Yeah, lisp is like getting old.