Re: Amazon used lisp & C exclusively?



Ari Johnson wrote:
Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


So already, Common Lisp addresses people with 1 IQ point more than C
programmers :-(.


It's not so much that. It's the fact that it's hard to teach old dogs
new tricks,

I know. Every time this stupid thread comes up someone has to point out that newbies could get the free trial version of Lispworks* in order to check out Lisp and be pretty far down the frickin road to salvation and ecstasy before they ran out of heap or stack or whichever way they cripple it.

At which point they have the usual no-brainer choice that eludes most people of paying a few bucks for Lispworks Pro* or spending ten times as much on hours of BS with free (as in my time, apparently) solutions.

hth, kenny

* Or on win32 and Linux, ACL.

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