····@emf.emf.net (Tom Lord) wrote in message news:<··············@corp.supernews.com>...
> Lisp dialects fail in business because their advocates challenge the
> people who sign checks too much.
This assumes that the use of Lisp dialects fails in business,
that there is a single reason why that happens when it does,
and that it happens, for this reason, specifically to Lisp dialect
programmers more than to others.
What suggestive evidence exists that might elevate
this otherwise silly conjecture to the status of a bona
fide ``cynical observation''?
> They like things that make them go. (ask a Star Trek NG fan).
Error. Cannot resolve dangling ``they'' pronoun or Star Trek reference.
From: Paolo Amoroso
Subject: Increased industrial use of Lisp [was: Re: a cycnical hypothesis/inference]
Date:
Message-ID: <h4l8PTywL5L3rn5Xj12kmv4NsjSS@4ax.com>
[Followup posted to comp.lang.lisp only]
On 7 Sep 2002 20:37:17 -0700, ···@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku) wrote:
> ····@emf.emf.net (Tom Lord) wrote in message news:<··············@corp.supernews.com>...
> > Lisp dialects fail in business because their advocates challenge the
> > people who sign checks too much.
[...]
> What suggestive evidence exists that might elevate
> this otherwise silly conjecture to the status of a bona
> fide ``cynical observation''?
There is actually evidence of the increased industrial use of Lisp--e.g.
HyperMeta, Roger Corman's full-time commitment to his product Corman Common
Lisp, and Scieneer Common Lisp. See:
HyperMeta
http://www.hypermeta.com
Corman Common Lisp
http://www.corman.net/CormanLisp.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cormanlisp/message/611
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cormanlisp/message/680
Scieneer Common Lisp
http://www.scieneer.com/scl/
More applications will be discussed at the upcoming International Lisp
Conference 2002:
http://www.international-lisp-conference.org
Paolo
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