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- From: nrb!slack@starbase.MITRE.ORG (M. G. Slack)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: Packaging MCL
- Message-ID: <9301211411.AA05601@starbase.mitre.org>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 14:11:48 GMT
- References: Vincent Keunen's message of Wed, 20 Jan 1993 09:44+0200 <19930120074430.1.KEUNEN@nrbmi1.ia.nrb.be>
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- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 09:44+0200
- From: Vincent Keunen <nrb!keunen@nrbmi2.ia.nrb.be>
- Reply-To: nrb!keunen@nrb.be
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- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 22:01+0200
- From: ph@netcom.com (Peter Hendrickson)
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- I think this is a good idea and here's how to package it: Call it the
- "MCL Operating System". Distribute it in an "MCL Operating System
- Folder". Nobody cares how big an operating system is! When you are
- delivering an MCL program to a customer, you specify that it requires
- the "MCL Operating System" and they won't bat an eye. The tone of the
- interaction changes from "... but the application will be 1.5MB" to
- "... you are up to date with the MCL Operating System, aren't you?"
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- Best of all, make the MCL OS Free and packaged with the MAC OS. I'll bet that
- this will greatly increase the # of people doing development in the language
- and thus up the Number of sales of the MCL language.
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- Marc
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