Re: Interesting developments since "Beating the averages"?




I think you need to list the handicaps you have in mind or it is a little hard to answer your question. 

I think they know who they are. And so do you. Take no offense,
this helps saving bandwidth because there is no reason to
flame over the issues.


No standard FFI? sockets? GUI? libraries in general? What? Anyway....

Argh! You said it!


There has been some progress on those things, but your assessment is not far off. 

This is exactly what I was afraid of.

The main thing that has changed is what you have observed, viz. that Lisp mindshare has done a 180 degree turn and there is an exploding grassroots thing going on. 

Yes. I like it. But it's fairly new.

And that is where libraries come from, so watch for things to change over the next couple of years.

Mhm.

btw, 4/2001 may be when BtA was published (taking your word for it) but the grassroots boom did not get interesting until late 2005.

The resonance was there in 2001. I think it was the first time Paul Graham got slashdotted. I did not have usenet back then, but are there any veterans who have noticed an increase in traffic since then? No
"September that never ended" on comp.lang.lisp? There are not very many
newbie-questions here right now -- this is open to all sorts of speculation.

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