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- From: ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning)
- Subject: Re: Why Isn't Lisp a Mainstream Language?
- In-Reply-To: secrist@msdsws.enet.dec.com's message of 21 Jan 93 02:42:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <TED.93Jan21125642@zeste.nmsu.edu>
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- Organization: Computing Research Lab
- References: <2413@sousa.tay.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:56:42 GMT
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- In article <2413@sousa.tay.dec.com> secrist@msdsws.enet.dec.com
- (Strong datatypes for weak minds.) writes:
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- Perhaps Scheme and Dylan are the last, best hope to dent the
- mainstream.
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- given the mindset of the people who effectively control the evolution
- of scheme, there is absolutely no hope of scheme becoming a useable
- language for mainstream programming.
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- i am not saying that the mindset is wrong, just that it completely
- prevents the language from going in the directions needed to be a
- really useable and marketable language.
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