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.
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