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  4. From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
  5. Subject: Re: Why Isn't Lisp a Mainstream Language?
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan28.071308.28191@netcom.com>
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  8. References: <1993Jan27.070106.28425@ads.com> <1993Jan27.175935.24272@cc.umontreal.ca> <JAFFER.93Jan27143229@camelot.ai.mit.edu>
  9. Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:13:08 GMT
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  12.       LISP had its shot at becoming a mainstream language in the mid 1980s,
  13. during the AI boom, and it didn't make it then.  It's unlikely to make
  14. it now.  Smalltalk occupies the market niche for a dynamic language for 
  15. "exploratory programming" at this point in time.
  16.  
  17.       Scheme is nice, but probably isn't going to take over the world.
  18.  
  19.                     John Nagle
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