From: Geoffrey Summerhayes
Subject: Re: Selling lisp to the Next Generation Space Telescope Project
Date: 
Message-ID: <CNjn6.265722$Pm2.4134077@news20.bellglobal.com>
"Marc Battyani" <·············@fractalconcept.com> wrote in message
·················@reader1.fr.uu.net...
>
> Our competitor's software is in C/C++ and they proudly say that it has
more
> than 1 million line of code.
> With this million they can only do 2D representations of parts and are not
> able to display results while driving the system (and obviously, they
crash
> every few hours like most C/C++ software)
> Our software has only 17000 lines of code but we do real time 3D display
of
> the system + results, compute and display in 3D the ultrasound
propagation,
> and it works 24x7 for weeks without restarting.
>

I hope you don't mind, I quoted this section in comp.lang.prolog where
someone
described using Prolog, or Lisp, for non-AI related work with the old
'hammer-nail'
cliche.
Or would that be the old 'hammer-nail' saw? :-)

Geoff