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What is the best Lisp implementation?

4 2022-03-02 19:00 *

You're confusing dialects and implementations.

CL is a popular dialect. SBCL is a popular implementation of it. There are others.

Similarly, R6RS & R7RS Scheme are two more popular dialects. Chez is a popular implementation of R6RS, again there are others. Not sure which of the implementations of R7RS are more popular, maybe Gerbil?

Personally, I like the ISLisp dialect too, but (unfortunately IMHO) it's definitely not popular. Whether popularity matters at all is a matter of opinion.

I wouldn't class any languages very different to the above as Lisps, despite people's attempts to shoehorn Python/Ruby/JavaScript into that definition.

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