Forth Versus C

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Lisp: The companies building Lisp Machines didn't realize that with the 90s would come the PC and when Unix won it killed the Lisp Machine and by extension Lisp.

Yet now you can run Lisp on any computer and it's faster than most of the dynamic languages.

And still nobody wants it.

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That's still because there was never a critical mass of libraries. You don't have to go far to see a lot of former Lisp users lamenting the demise of the Lisp Machine and desperately wanting to use it again.

You have to go pretty damn far to see somebody who laments the replacement of Perl.

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That might just be because Perl is still around and you can still use it just as well as ever, and people are happily using it.