From: Paul Foley
Subject: Re: Selling lisp to the Next Generation Space Telescope Project
Date: 
Message-ID: <m23dczlmtr.fsf@mycroft.actrix.gen.nz>
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:30:52 -0700, Anonymous  wrote:

> Problem is, with a project as sensative as space, do you want to use those
> who "learned java in 21 days"? Java (like most programing languages,
> especially Lisp) is very robust, but can be compared to any spoken language.
> Many people can communicate in another language, but can they truly speak
> it? I guess I see the question not as what language to program in, but what
> level of programmers they want to use.  However, if the program is not
> 'mission critical', then the Java or VB drones should be just fine.

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