[Tomte]

Re: open source Lisp, I guess other venues than comp.lang.lisp have taken a lot of the mindshare (the demise of Usenet).

cll was rabidly against OSS, e.g. Pitman's pure hatred for it was practically Gospel there.

A few years ago some younger Lispers emerged, for who OSS was natural, just like with the short Ada renaissance.

At least the "young Lispers" are still there, unlike their Ada counterparts, even if they haven't taken over the world.