Re: Where to find good lisp critiques?

From: Bulent Murtezaoglu (bm_at_acm.org)
Date: 12/03/03 

Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 19:18:30 +0200

>>>>> "BrM" == Brian Mastenbrook <NOSPAMbmastenbNOSPAM@cs.indiana.edu> writes:

    BrM> ... I do think they have an
    BrM> opportunity to expand their market by offering something more
    BrM> attractive to students trying to actually use the language
    BrM> (which precludes heap-limited trials).

If you approached them with your situation, maybe they could help you.
Franz had Linux versions out with no heap/time limits some years ago,
which indeed came in very handy when I was in grad school. They have
stopped doing that, but I suspect students with necessarily consy or
long-running code were not the people they were trying to exclude by
this decision. (of course maybe you don't run linux...)

    BrM> ... I'm not sure what
    BrM> Digitool is thinking with a $450 student product, but perhaps
    BrM> more students have that kind of money than I'm aware (and I'm
    BrM> fairly well-paid by the university).

AFAIR that's about the price of a student car for the mechanically
inclined student. Not cheap, but not out of the question altogether.
Is that not so?

cheers,

BM

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