Subject: Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1997/03/05
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <3066588599082020@naggum.no>


* Mike McDonald
| Remember, this was in one of those silly "Introduction to AI" classes.
| Running Eliza in batch mode isn't very exciting. Now that I'm more
| knowledgable about lisp, I can see where it's useful even in batch
| mode. But I couldn't back then as a first introduction.

I wonder if the purported failure in the marketplace is due _only_ to bad
first introductions and resulting prejudice.  once people get over their
first introductions (or the bad (formal) introductions aren't their first),
they seem to stay with Lisp.

#\Erik
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