Re: Lisps' popularity
From: Ray Dillinger (bear_at_sonic.net)
Date: 02/28/05
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:32:25 GMT
William Bland wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:28:43 +0000, Trent Buck wrote:
>
>
>>Up spake Tayssir John Gabbour:
>>
>>>Academics have an interesting view of business: They equate business
>>>with war.
>>
>>It's true. I'm an academic, and I really can't distinguish between
>>warfare, politics and business.
>
>
> In business, there really is a possibility for *everyone* to win (at
> least over certain timescales). OK, it virtually never happens, but it is
> at least possible.
>
It is however, eminently possible, and happens all the time,
that competitors enter into situations where there are in
the end more winners than losers.
A dozen businesses all competing for the business of a
relatively spread-out ethnically asian community in a
major american city, for example, may all profit by building
a mall to move into, concentrating their market and creating
a natural "center" for the community they serve.
And a dozen Lisp vendors each with proprietary technology
and their own dialect of Lisp could have mutually profited,
had they done it in time, by creating Common Lisp to concentrate
their market.
Bear
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