You'll try a partial rewrite of the history. Common Lisp was developed over the Internet. The participating groups were all nicely networked and had lots of distributed systems. XEROX PARC and MIT pioneered the GUI. Lisp Machines were the first workstations with GUIs commercially available in 1981. Common Lisp came with its own native binding of X11 - CLX from day one.
> Moreover, the last standardization was grounded in the previous effort and that was before GNU and when dedicated hardware looked like the future.
Hmm, Common Lisp was developed to run efficiently on stock hardware from day one. Motorola 68k, Intel 86, then SPARC, POWER, MIPS, ...
> Clojure and Common Lisp express the same attitude toward programming and programmers.
They don't.
Common Lisp was developed as a standard Lisp language for application development (in domains like expert systems, cad systems, etc.) which favors giving the programmer maximum freedom and makes little assumption on what it is running.
Example: Common Lisp comes with minimal expression syntax and an extension mechanism.
Clojure was originally developed to bring a Lisp to the JVM, which integrates with Java, reuses parts of Java and favors things like functional or concurrent programming.
Example: Clojure comes with more complex expression syntax and no extension mechanism.
symbolics.com, Lisp Machine manufacturer, first ever .com domain. In 1985.
bbn.com, Lisp Machine developer, second .com domain in 1985.
Thinking Machines, Parallel AI Machine for Lisp, third .com domain in 1985
MCC, had hundreds of Lisp Machines, fourth .com domain in 1985
DEC, co-sponsor of CL, fifth .com domain in 1985
Xerox, Lisp Machine developer, seventh .com domain in 1986
...
I'd say all the companies who participated in the CL development from 1981-1994 were commercial entities on the Internet. All of them offered a variety of network services in their operating systems: mail, chat, terminal, X11, file sharing, remote printing, remote booting, name server, ...
> I'm not advancing a moral argument. I'm advancing an historical one. It's an amoral fact that Common Lisp was standardized more than twenty years ago
It was standardized 1994 with the ANSI CL standard. Exactly 20 years ago.
> - before the commercial internet,
Commercial ISPs started around 1989.
> wide availability of systems suitable for distributed computing,
Distributed computing was available earlier.
> and even before it was clear that GUI's would win the war.
Lisp supported GUIs much earlier. The Common Lisp standards group had even a subgroup for this topic.
Anyway it's not clear what this all means, when CL was developed. Scheme, Objective C, C, C++, Smalltalk, were all developed before Common Lisp. What follows from that?
> Moreover, the last standardization was grounded in the previous effort and that was before GNU and when dedicated hardware looked like the future.
Hmm, Common Lisp was developed to run efficiently on stock hardware from day one. Motorola 68k, Intel 86, then SPARC, POWER, MIPS, ...
> Clojure and Common Lisp express the same attitude toward programming and programmers.
They don't.
Common Lisp was developed as a standard Lisp language for application development (in domains like expert systems, cad systems, etc.) which favors giving the programmer maximum freedom and makes little assumption on what it is running.
Example: Common Lisp comes with minimal expression syntax and an extension mechanism.
Clojure was originally developed to bring a Lisp to the JVM, which integrates with Java, reuses parts of Java and favors things like functional or concurrent programming.
Example: Clojure comes with more complex expression syntax and no extension mechanism.