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- From: secrist@msdsws.enet.dec.com (Strong datatypes for weak minds.)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
- Subject: Re: Why Isn't Lisp a Mainstream Language?
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 02:42:04 GMT
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- In <1993Jan14.093640.20306@ads.com>, bvrotney@ADS.COM (Bill Vrotney) writes...
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- ; I used to think the answer to you question was complex, but now I
- ; think that it is simple. I call it "C sickness". For Lisp to
- ; become mainstream it has to be small, fast and hardened.
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- Not. The mainstream is not controlled by computer scientists, but by
- mass market dweebs. C compilers are becoming a fat, bloated miasmas
- much like the 80x86-seeking public (go install a Borland product), and
- mutants like C++ aren't even ANSI/ISO standards.
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- Today form is more important than function, marketing is king, and
- vendors are catering to that mass market.
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- Perhaps Scheme and Dylan are the last, best hope to dent the mainstream.
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- Regards,
- rcs
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