Land Of Lisp is out

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

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<3fe80ac4-b595-4bcb-96b9-9138b1ec52e7 at l17g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>, 
TheFlyingDutchman wrote:

> On Oct 27, 4:55 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
> wrote:
>
>> Would it be right to say that the only Lisp still in common use is the
>> Elisp built into Emacs?
> 
> There is a new version of Lisp called Clojure that runs on the Java
> Virtual Machine (JVM) that is on the upswing.

Now is not exactly a good time to build new systems crucially dependent on 
the continuing good health of Java though, is it?