Re: hey, what happened to this NG?

Ken Tilton <kentilton@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Stefan Mandl wrote:

Little action the recent days?

Nah, it's summer, and it still seems to be true that only academia
uses Lisp (and academia really knows how to take a summer off).

I thought that ECLMs 2005 and 2006 showed pretty convincintly that
Europeans use Lisp in industry. Also goes along with the summer off thing.
.

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