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Top Forums Programming Lisp Post 302176196 by odys on Monday 17th of March 2008 05:38:26 PM
Old 03-17-2008
Hello,

I can agree with Jim.

I used Common Lisp and other dialects, did some projects.
If you need sockets, regexps and other 'modern' stuff you need to choose suitable implementation. I would like to be wrong but probably IMAP or audio/video will be missing.

The language is very cool. But I observed the most beautiful languages tend to have worse libraries. E.g. Perl and Python are on the 'good libraries' side, CL, Ruby are on 'cool languages' side.

Regards,
Miroslaw
 

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