All this debate over ACL has me curious about soemthing?
How many people here have learned Lisp and actually gotten
to the point where they were hired by someone to do Lisp
programming by using the ACL trial version as the
only version of Lisp they practiced coding in?
How about those that used it for the lion's share of there
practice programming?
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Thaddeus L. Olczyk, PhD
Think twice, code once.
From: Friedrich Dominicus
Subject: Re: How many people have actually gotten started with ACL trial?
Date:
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Thaddeus L Olczyk <······@interaccess.com> writes:
> All this debate over ACL has me curious about soemthing?
> How many people here have learned Lisp and actually gotten
> to the point where they were hired by someone to do Lisp
> programming by using the ACL trial version as the
> only version of Lisp they practiced coding in?
Well I did not have used ACL but LispWorks. I would have used ACL but
I first asked for the prices for personal use and that was a bit too
hefty for my taste. So I bought and used LispWorks and later upgraged
to their Enterprices Edition.
Regards
Friedrich
From: Coby Beck
Subject: Re: How many people have actually gotten started with ACL trial?
Date:
Message-ID: <b9hlnm$304m$1@otis.netspace.net.au>
"Thaddeus L Olczyk" <······@interaccess.com> wrote in message
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> All this debate over ACL has me curious about soemthing?
> How many people here have learned Lisp and actually gotten
> to the point where they were hired by someone to do Lisp
> programming by using the ACL trial version as the
> only version of Lisp they practiced coding in?
> How about those that used it for the lion's share of there
> practice programming?
I learned lisp in ACL 3.2 and then ACL 5 (educational institution version)
and got my first Lisp job right after. The Lisp we used there was ACL 5.x
also.
Since then I have worked at companies using Lispworks. When I was in a
position to chose the implementation for the company, I could not justify
the very large difference in price especially runtime distribution fees so
chose Lispworks and was not disappointed. I still prefer ACL's IDE but am
*very* happy using emacs and ilisp.
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Coby Beck
(remove #\Space "coby 101 @ bigpond . com")