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Common lisp is cool but I really wish it wouldn't be an ANSI standard so the language development would continue.

The current standard library is a bit limiting and there are a bunch of good ideas that it could borrow from Clojure (literals? Anyone?)

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I don't think being a standard is the problem. The general loss of interest in the language was the problem. If it had continued to gain or maintain interest we might've had a later revision of the standard. Other standardized languages get revised regularly, hell even Ada, Cobol, and Fortran receive updates at least once a decade.

Chialisp is interesting.

https://chialisp.com/

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