Re: Are we close to a Lisp boom ?

On Sat, 03 May 2008 07:34:44 -0700, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:

> If it's true that as we progress in time, successive fa****onable
> languages resemble Lisp more and more then Lisp's turn should come at
> some point.
> 
> Do you agree with this argument ? If yes, would you say we're close to a
> Lisp boom ?

We need to change Lisp's architecture. No more included environment. If 
my office suite, my window manager, my X server, my network monitor 
applet, my browser, my newsreader, and my terminal all have 50 megs of 
lisp attached, that's a problem, especially when I update packages.

We should have something akin to a lisp corba daemon or something of the 
sort with live updates by logging into the daemon itself. Maybe every 
application could do that. That will make things saner.

When lisp can replace say the dhcp client to make my internet go then it 
will be relevant to joe user and mr uptight admin.

We need to do more than just fill in the blanks and expect everyone else 
to have an epiphany. Let's publish a lisp shell that replaces bash at 
least.





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