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Sinidir on Oct 31, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Effective Programs: 10 Years of Clojure

>Pity he hadn't heard of Armed Bear Common Lisp (http://abcl.org/), which runs on the JVM.

First public release of ABCL seems to be after first release of clojure.

zeveb on Oct 31, 2017 [–]

Was it? Ward's Wiki indicates someone was using it in 2004: http://wiki.c2.com/?ArmedBearCommonLisp (as an aside: why is JavaScript required now?), while Clojure dates back to 2007.

endgame on Nov 1, 2017 | [–]

> (as an aside: why is JavaScript required now?)

Because it was "improved" (rebuilt) recently.

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