Re: something i don't understand...

Ulrich Hobelmann <u.hobelmann@xxxxxx> writes:

> Tom Russ wrote:
>> Unfortunately, I don't have time to elaborate tonight, but it often
>> boils down to Lisp not being popular, leading to management fear of (a)
>> the unknown (b) difficulty in finding lisp programmers to build and
>> especially maintain the system.
>
> I'm not sure that the above are valid points, given that I've never
> even heard of Mumps (unless it's the name for some kind of disease),
> nor that there exist people who can program it. Lisp is at least
> known to most people, even if they think it's a weird language.

Well, it's known enough to have a 99-bottles program:
http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-mumps-415.html

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