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- From: zdhm06@trc.amoco.com (Donald H. Mitchell)
- Subject: Re: Why Isn't Lisp a Mainstream Language?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.132508@trc.amoco.com>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:25:08 GMT
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- > As a final note, then, I would say, yes, in the beginning, my attitude
- > toward LISP was influenced by a professor whom I respected, and who spoke
- > positively regarding the language.
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- IMHO, Priscilla's hit the nail on the head. Most purchasing decisions
- or choices of how to go about doing something are based first on
- personal experience and second on recommendations from friends and
- colleagues. You may violate this characterization by going out and
- researching every purchase that you do; however, I doubt it. Your
- choice of store to shop in, refrigerator model, *restaurant*, church,
- etc starts with personal recommendations (or sometimes
- advertisements). We've got to evangelize and perhaps stoop to
- teaching introductory programming courses :-)
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- Note, IBM and MicroSoft don't corner their markets by quality,
- price, or features but by familiarity, trustworthiness, and
- marketing agressiveness. They've defined the battle: we must
- fight it on their grounds. The same goes for languages.
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- > --
- > Priscilla Walther
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- Don Mitchell dmitchell@trc.amoco.com
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- Don Mitchell dmitchell@trc.amoco.com
- Amoco Production Company (918) 660-4270
- Tulsa Research Center
- P.O. Box 3385, Tulsa, OK 74102
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