Subject: Re: Design patterns for Lisp
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 13:18:50 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3216201529585621@naggum.net>

* Software Scavenger
| If Lisp gains a reputation for making people rich, it will quickly become
| popular.  Paul Graham is just one person, not enough to give Lisp such a
| reputation.  We need hordes of Lisp millionaires.

  Provided at least a majority of them are satisfied with the language that
  made them rich and do not feel the urge to create their own pet languages.

| Why don't we already have hordes of Lisp millionaires?

  Perhaps because they do not want to credit Lisp with it?

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