This posting may seem slightly off-topic at first, but I think that cmucl (and sbcl) are just a major reason for the present situation:
Debian Weeky news recently mentioned an article on various statistics on the Debian distribution: http://www.debian.de/News/weekly/2005/37/ http://www.upgrade-cepis.org/issues/2005/3/up6-3Amor.pdf Table 1 gives statistics over the amount of code in the Debian distribution written in various languages. (I apologize for the formatting - xpdf's PDF cut&paste feature got slightly confused here.) C is first, as one might have expected, and I would not call C++ being second a big surprise. Note, however, that LISP is forth, and even comes before Perl, which did surprise me, and might be a surprise for quite some others. Of course, all this has to be taken with a grain of salt - especially as large pieces of the major lisp compilers are written in lisp, and as scheme code presumably also counts as lisp code here. Language Source Lines % of Code 130,847,000 C 57 38,602,000 16.8 C++ 20,763,000 Shell 9 6,919,000 LISP 3 6,415,000 Perl 2.8 4,129,000 Python 1.8 3,679,000 Java 1.6 2,724,000 FORTRAN 1.2 2,144,000 PHP 0.93 1,423,000 Pascal 0.62 1,401,000 Ada 0.61 229,496,000 TOTALS 10 -- regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ Thomas Fischbacher - http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~tf //\ (lambda (n) ((lambda (p q r) (p p q r)) (lambda (g x y) V_/_ (if (= x 0) y (g g (- x 1) (* x y)))) n 1)) (Debian GNU)
