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		ohyes on March 2, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Bipolar Lisp Programmer > But every implementation does it differently. So don't use every implementation. Pick one. >Read the standard on pathnames. Versioned filesystems are a blast from the past. I have, what is your point? Most languages use string concatenation for file-system access. How is CL a step backwards from that? >It doesn't, I never said it did. It was an allusion to a fairly well known post entitled 'why common lisp sucks', which is basically what Dr. Taver is describing.

EdiX on March 2, 2011 [–]

> So don't use every implementation. Pick one.

But then a library you need doesn't work on the implementation you pick on your operating system, or you want to port to another operating system.

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