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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 03:36:47 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 01 Sep 2024 22:52:10 -0300, Johanne Fairchild wrote:

> I had no idea [Lisp] existed and I felt it was
> really strange that inteligent people would care so much about such an
> old thing.

It is a language that still looks advanced compared to the state of the 
art today. Trouble is, there is no currently workable Lisp “standard” as 
such: first of all there is the “Lisp-1” (e.g. Scheme) versus “Lisp-2” 
(e.g. Common Lisp, Elisp) schism; secondly the closest thing to a Lisp 
“standard” was Common Lisp, and that is really old and full of baggage 
from the time when non-Posix-like operating systems were common. Even 
Scheme seems to have become fragmented.