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> I'm being entirely serious; I think the language would have been more popular with a cooler name.

How do you explain the lack of popularity of Lisp dialects that do not use "Lisp" in their name, for example, Arc, Racket and Clojure. I know that HN was written in Arc, Arc was written in Racket and Clojure is used in a handful of companies but a far greater number of companies and projects use Python.

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Probably because Arc is an incomplete hobby project of Paul Graham that will never be finished now and has only a tiny following of a few people. Yes it runs this site, but not much else. Clojure isn't very easy to learn and I found the Racket ecosystem too minimum. The name sure doesn't help.

Cool names might be neccessary, but not sufficient, for popularity?

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