Talk: Common Lisp

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I think that the See Also link to Kyoto Common Lisp is irrelevant and should be flushed. KCL is now only of historical interest since it does not conform to the ANSI standard. Its successors, among them GNU Common Lisp (GCL) are out there, but frankly I don't think that there should even be entries for them, or even perhaps for WCL which is also listed. If nobody complains in a few days then I'll remove those links. -- James (Fri Mar 26 08:48:54 UTC 2004)

It is not the way of Wikipedia to discard knowledge about historically relevant software simply because it is not currently useful software. You can see this, for instance, in the number of articles we have for implementations of BASIC. The current article on Kyoto Common Lisp claims that it conforms to the ANSI standard; if this is inaccurate (it should probably at most say "purports to conform") it should certainly be corrected. But please do not delete entries for this or other software simply because nobody uses it anymore -- "historical interest" is not a reason to delete, but a capital reason to retain Wikipedia articles. --FOo 14:14, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I edited the page a little bit and forgot to summarize (BTW: this was the first time I edited a wikipedia page). First, I removed the "perhaps the most" in "CMUCL is perhaps the most widely-used [...] implementation". It is a subjective opinion about something that is perhaps not even a fact (gcl and clisp are both very popular, and SBCL seems to gain popularity too). I also added two entries in the external links. Fredokun (Mon Apr 12 10:11:01 UTC 2004)