Re: What would a modern LispOS look like?

Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
"bradb" <brad.beveridge@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Why? What for?
Not everybody loves Lisp :)

And people who don't love lisp would use lispos for what reason?

Because developers flock to it for the advantages that they
see and write software for it and user merely follow the
software, not caring if it is writting in Lisp or klingon.

goose,

.

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