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📣 behnamoh

When is the next standard for Common Lisp going to be announced?


From their website ()https://common-lisp.net/):

> Common Lisp is the modern, multi-paradigm, high-performance, compiled, ANSI-standardized, most prominent (along with Scheme) descendant of the long-running family of Lisp programming languages.

But CL is _not_ modern, it lacks so many features that are standard in almost all other languages in 2022. When will the next standardization of CL take place?


  👤 Tomte Accepted Answer ✓
Never. The Lisp community seems fine with the status quo, and I haven't heard of any real undertaking to revive the standardization working group.

The usual explanation is that the language allows so much to do with libraries that a new standard isn't really needed, as it would be in "lesser" languages.


👤 db48x
What do you think it lacks?