CL learns from Arc

Seriously, what the <i>hell</i> is wrong with these comp.lang.lisp guys? All the citations I have ever heard from that place consist of derision, ridicule and wiping the hard drives of unwary readers. Do they want their language to ever become anything but an intellectual curiosity used exclusively by hardcore hackers?

After all of those proposed changes, Lisp is still just too easy to read for the elite hackers it targets. Why not just use a CRC8 for each keyword as an identifier instead?

Wow, vitriol from the folks on c.l.l. How shocking.

The really interesting thing here is:<p>A majority of c.l.l. 'celebrities' try to convince each other how <i>un</i>important Arc is, but nevertheless they literally spend hours and hours writing their comments about it...<p>(At least they help to push the interest in Lisp generally.)