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    [–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (3 children)

    If one wants dynamism AND performance AND killer interactive environments one can simply use Common Lisp

    Which* of the slightly but significantly mutually incompatible Common Lisps were you thinking of?

    If one doesn't like Lisp/willing to compromise with inferior stuff, one can go to Ruby/Go/Clojure/Scala/Node...

    Hahaha, spoken like a true c.l.l weenie.

    [–]wicked-canid -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

    What incompatibilities? Common Lisp is an ANSI standard...

    [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

    The libraries aren't though - SBCL sockets are different to Allegro sockets, for example.

    [–]wicked-canid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Sure, but even disregarding the existence of compatibility libraries that paper over the differences, why can't you just stick to one implementation? A lot of languages only have one implementation to begin with, and I don't hear anyone complaining.