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dragonwriter on Jan 9, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Practical Common Lisp (2005)

> If one wants a "fixed" CL they could look at Scheme.

CL is almost a decade newer than Scheme, so if one believes Scheme to be the superior one, it would make more sense to call CL a broken Scheme than Scheme a fixed CL.

xvilka on Jan 9, 2022 [–]

Latest Scheme standard is much more recent than the CL one, though. Thus my point still stands.

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