Re: PING The Class of 2003: Yer gaining...

From: Daniel Barlow (dan_at_telent.net)
Date: 10/30/03


Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 02:40:08 +0000

Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com> writes:

> By decade:
>
> 60s: 1 lucky stiff: four decades of Lisp!
> 70s: 3
> 80s: 20
> 90s: 19 uh-oh
       ^^^^^^^^

Call me dense, but you consider this too many or too few? I first
played with Lisp in the 1990s, but I don't want to fill out the survey
yet while I'm still just playing with the language - I figured I'd
leave it until I've actually used Lisp for more than a toy program.

> 00s: 64 whew!

-dan



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