Re: off-topic: Why is lisp so weird?

From: Christopher C. Stacy (cstacy_at_news.dtpq.com)
Date: 03/01/04 

Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:50:08 GMT

>>>>> On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 21:42:57 GMT, Claudio Puviani ("Claudio") writes:

 Claudio> You're making the common mistake of applying your criteria
 Claudio> to measure other people's needs. Maybe you don't need to
 Claudio> squeeze as much out of your CPUs, but it's naive to believe
 Claudio> that everyone is in the same boat as you.

That is very well put, and a good point.

 Claudio> In my own field (financial systems), we have budgetary and
 Claudio> space constraints that prevent us from arbitrarily buying
 Claudio> new systems.

I would be very surprised if an accurate cost analysis had really
been made using the kind of information we're talking about here,
if for no other reason than that it's very difficult to identify
and quantify those things.

Most people most of the time are incompetent to do that, and just
middle along, and really just bullshitting about all that stuff.
Moreover, they also commonly employ such analysis as a smokescreen
for their own problems and political adgendas.

Besides, most such technical management business decisions (in all
domains, not just the financial services sector) are knowingly based
on non-technical criteria, anyway. Some bozo somewhere has decided
that the a particular technology is today's panacea, or that business
needs to be done with a particular vendor because of their reputation,
track record, company stability, or special deals or special contacts.