Re: Joel hammers the final nail into Lisp's coffin

Anonymous coward #673 wrote:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01.html

The best part:

"Oh and I know Paul told you that he made his app in Lisp and then he
made millions of dollars because he made his app in Lisp, but honestly
only two people ever believed him and, a complete rewrite later, they
won't make that mistake again."

Perhaps you should read his article "Can Your Programming Language Do
This?"

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html

-- S

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