Re: Is Lisp a Blub?

Raffael Cavallaro escreveu:
On 2007-07-11 21:50:19 -0400, jimbokun@xxxxxxxxx said:

Why not do the few remaining little things that close
the gap where other languages have a productivity edge over Lisp?

There is a market for these few remaining little things. It is being served by the commercial implementations. What you are lamenting is the fact that the free lisps do not have the ease of use of the commercial offerings, but this is only a problem for those who refuse to pay for more usable tools.

Humm. . . no!

It is a (non) problem to those that make the decisions (do not) to pay for tools which in the average give the same results as the less expensive ones.
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