Is Common Lisp dying?

LISP. One of the old languages, LISP, has lost its fame and started its journey to death. These days, developers do not use LISP directly, but they use general-purpose Lisp standalone implementations such as Clojure, Common Lisp and Scheme.

Is Common Lisp faster than C++?

At 25000 values, Common Lisp is almost 1.8 times as fast as the C version, and the compilation time is 65\% of the total evaluation time. At 25000 values, Common Lisp is 4.1 times as fast as the C version, and the compilation time is 88\% of the total evaluation time.

Is Scheme better than Common Lisp?

Overall, Common Lisp is much more uniform than Scheme, and more radical language experiments, if done at all, are usually embedded as a portable library rather than defining a whole new language dialect. Because of this, language extensions tend to be more conservative, but also more combinable (and often optional).

How old is Common Lisp?

Common Lisp

Developer	ANSI X3J13 committee
First appeared	1984, 1994 for ANSI Common Lisp
Typing discipline	Dynamic, strong
Scope	Lexical, optionally dynamic
Major implementations

How efficient is Lisp?

Contrary to popular belief, Lisp code can be very ef- ficient today: it can run as fast as equivalent C code or even faster in some cases. language, there are very good and effi- cient compilers out there, that can deliver not only byte-code, but also native machine code from Lisp source.

How similar is Lisp to Scheme?

Scheme is a dialect of Lisp that stresses conceptual elegance and simplicity. Scheme is much smaller than Common Lisp; the specification is about 50 pages, compared to Common Lisp’s 1300 page draft standard. (See question [4-10] for details on standards for Common Lisp.)