>>Ken Tilton wrote:

>>>vanekl wrote:

>>>>Spiros Bousbouras wrote:

>>>>>If it's true that as we progress in time, successive
>>>>>fashionable 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 ?

>>>>IMO, not until CL goes through another standardization process,
>>>>not for the language this time, but for a few libraries:
>>>>comm, stream, unicode, thread.

>>>Yeah, the damn thing is unusable as it is.

>>unusable? needlessly inconvenient would be a better choice of words,
>>methinks. Python has its advantages; ignoring them is... never mind.

>>>>Too bad there isn't a benevolent angel that could fund such
>>>>an expenditure <hint>PG</hint>.

>>>Nah, he went broke trying to do a start-up with CL, a Web store I think.

>>Time to put the cork back in the bottle. The bar is closed. Make sure
>>you tip your waitress on the way out. Thank you and drive safely.

>>>kt

> dont know if u misunderstood or not but he is referring to Paul Graham
> that
> started Viaweb in 1995 which was sold to Yahoo for around 50million
> dollars in 1998.
> Graham is now working on Arc, a Lisp-dialect.