Re: Amazon used lisp & C exclusively?



goose wrote:
Ken Tilton wrote:

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Oh, yeah, this is the other thing you old dawgs cannot be trained off.
Sorry, Charlie. $1425 is /nothing/ comapred to what other craftsmen are
paying for their tools. You want be a serious photographer?
Cabinetmaker? Guitarist? For $1425? PWUUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!


For a product which doesn't even approach the usefulness
of the free offerings (see gcc) ....

If you think C is comparable to Lisp, what makes me think we are not going to get very far in agreeing on the value of a Lisp environment?

Besides, you completely missed the point: gcc is free because someone gave it away (and continues to develop and give away again) as a deliberate political act with the intended effect I have already bemoaned: infecting people with the idea that software has no value (or that programmer time has no value). of course gcc has value, and the price of zero is an irrational price, but great for achieving the intended infection. Of course a lot of great programmer time went into developing it, and that cost was recovered in political gain.

I mean, just look at how hard you are arguing now for /nothing/ other than a house or car costing $1425. Yikes, the infection has spread!

Meanwhile society suffers because everyone is out there slaving away trying to get their "free" OS to recognize a mouse or DVD drive if it even will, when they could be hacking into the White House computer system to get evidence for the war crimes trial.

tsk tsk, Mr. Stallman.

kenny

ps. I am trying to get an estimate of end-user hours spent on getting their "free" as in "my time" Linux systems to run. Any leads, anyone? k

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