From: Chris Bitmead
Subject: Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace
Date: 
Message-ID: <BITMEADC.97Feb24125542@Alcatel.com.au>
In article <·············@acm.org> Sin-Yaw Wang <······@acm.org> writes:

>You can be one of those elite super software engineer.  You would love
>Lisp or Scheme.  Getting a large group of people (4 people or more) is a
>different story.

But you don't *need* 4 people, if you have one "elite super lisp
programmer".

That's part of the real problem actually. Managers think in terms of
needing a body count of say 20 people. They never stop to consider
that 4 very talented people might do the job of 20, quicker, cheaper
and better.

>Of course, if you have 4 bright engineers who all love Lisp, you are a
>lucky manager.  I envy you.
>
>-- 
>Sin-Yaw Wang, ······@acm.org
>http://www.concentric.net/~sinyaw/
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