Re: Is Lisp a Blub?

On Jul 18, 11:59 pm, Cesar Rabak <csra...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Raffael Cavallaro escreveu:

On 2007-07-16 23:32:29 -0400, Cesar Rabak <csra...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Or said in other words the features commercial lisp offers is
available in other technologies, otherwise lisp would have taken the
language market.

1. The features commercial lisps offer are *not* available in free lisps.

OK, my comment was on the (perceived by the persons who are to patron)
ROI for the additional cost.

I don't know where you happen to work but with my experience with my
employers paying few thousands for an implementation was not a proble,
don't forgeth that I live in Macedonia a country with average salary
of ~200 euros, they have a problem using that esoteric language called
lisp. Second most of the companies I know don't want to use OpenSource
tools at all. They want a vendor. YMMV


2. The features common lisp offers are not available in other
technologies - notably the *combination* of these: a mature,
standardized, language with easy to use facilities for metaprogramming
(due to code = data), a powerful, standardized object system with MI,
generic functions, and a MOP, supported commercial implementations that
allow delivery of platform native binaries and double-clickable GUI apps
for Win, Mac and Linux.

I agree with description and not disputing these aspects. What I surmise
is that this *combination* is not in so need in the market to the point
it be so unnoticed by the large community of developers.

Getting back on my comment to poster who mentioned the (blog) article, I
maintain the features above are not cure for the illness described in
the article.

--
Cesar Rabak


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