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Discussion on: Which language would you want to see take over the world?

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tux0r

Lisp has already taken over the world, considering its success in artificial intelligence and counting Python as a Lisp dialect. Also, Scheme still has a loyal (and growing) fan base.

Regarding beauty and elegance, I'd still say that Common Lisp would probably be agreeable.

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Avalander

I'd say it still has a bit to go to take over the world, though. It's virtually unused in OS and embedded systems, for instance. And even though there is ClojureScript, it's not widely used in web programming.

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tux0r

You don't know that unless you see the source code. ;-)

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Avalander

Haha, that is true, but I know at least that Linux is not written in lisp.

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Robert Moskal

Python, a lisp dialect? Now use!