Subject: Re: Java is really convenient. Re: Sun thinks about switching Java to S-expression syntax: Lava From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1999/02/23 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3128753203540626@naggum.no> * mikemac@mikemac.com (Mike McDonald) | (I found it extremely ironic that management decided it was OK for me to | make up an extention language! I guess they felt they could find lots of | experienced engineers in whatever I made up.) this is a point worth latching on to, actually. you can often get a foot-hold on management (or perhaps just a foot in the door) by pointing out that you don't _need_ a new custom-built extension language, it's all well-defined and standard and you can even write actual applications in it. sometimes, management will accept any sort of "scripting", but will balk on actual programming in "odd" languages. the way to exploit this sillitude is to abuse the management vocabulary and just refer to Lisp as a scripting language until it is sufficiently entrenched, such as by pretending that CL in "Allegro CL" is a Roman numeral and that the 150th version is pretty darn stable. #:Erik