In article <···············@netcom.com> ······@netcom.com "David Pollen" writes:
> I don't understand why people consider Lisp too big to be highly usable.
> This may have been true some time ago. But now with Hard Drive and
> Ram prices falling like they have been and will be for years, how
> can people support the "Lisp is just too big" line.
I suspect that the probklem is that different people have different
expectations. Which dialect of Lisp do you mean, and which vendor?
> Alternatively, people might think Lisp has too many functions, but that
> argument but I don't think that this argument cuts it either.
Which Lisp?
> Are there any people out there who can tell me what the current and
> valid arguments are for this theory?
There are as many theories and arguments as there are programmers and
users. Take your pick.
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