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Reputation: 1063

Will there be another Common Lisp standard?

I realize this is a broad question, but given "what we know now" vs. "what we knew then" and Greenspun's Tenth Rule, are there efforts to "modernize" (evolve) Common Lisp or has this been considered? Are there working groups that consider this question? Is there still interest in an (incrementally improved) ANSI Standard for Common Lisp?

Upvotes: 1

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Answers (2)

Frank Zalkow
Frank Zalkow

Reputation: 3930

It isn't a standard, but you may be interested in CL21.

Upvotes: 1

sds
sds

Reputation: 60072

This question has been asked on comp.lang.lisp many times and the answer is NO.

Changing a standard is extremely expensive in terms of time of experts. Lisp vendors have neither resources nor incentives to do that.

Nor there is any need for that: the language as specified is good enough, what it lacks is standard interfaces to various libraries. This issue is addressed by individual vendors.

Upvotes: 5

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