Subject: Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1997/02/25 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme Message-ID: <3065819862546814@naggum.no> * Sin-Yaw Wang | Super engineers want other people to do "grunt works" so that they can | have some good time. Those "grunt works" people do not know Lisp well. I find that the programmers of the Lisp system I'm using have done a _lot_ of the "grunt work" for me. far less "grunt work" is necessary in Lisp than in C/C++/whatever, where it seems there's very little _beyond_ "grunt work". in fact, there's so _little_ "grunt work" in one of my current projects that I actually miss it a little -- I found it relaxing to spend some time with some moderately unintelligent task like putting Emacs or the shell to work on cross-referencing my files or tweaking some implementation detail, but these are already taken care of (most of them, anyway). which, of course, means that most of the "grunt workers" would be out of work if they used a better language. maybe _that's_ why they don't know Lisp... #\Erik -- if you think big enough, you never have to do it