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Common Lisp will keep chugging right along.

You could ask on comp.lang.lisp if you wanted some really well-informed opinions wrt the impact of Arc on CL, but I wouldn't advise it unless your skin is thick and flame-resistant.

I couldn't resist.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/...

> How wrong is it to regard [Arc] as a new Morris worm that infects

> MzScheme installations with unhygienic macros and empty lists that

> serve as false?

A somewhat different question is its impact on Scheme. My bet is mzscheme gets pretty popular this year.

Do you really think that Arc is a competitor for CL?

It is for me. I literally wrote it so I wouldn't have to use CL anymore.

Maybe not. But unlike CL, Arc has a snowball's chance in hell of competing with Java.

Here's the book answer: http://www.oreillymaker.com/link/7957/arc/