Subject: Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1997/03/12 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme Message-ID: <3067164676389733@naggum.no> * Randy Crawford | I've come late to this old saw, but what the heck... it seems you are several years out of date, too. | And those who believed to the contrary, like Lucid and Symbolics, are | dead, dead, dead. where do you consider Franz, Harlequin, and Digitool to be today? | If every Lisp-based business has eventually crashed and burned (or else | left Lisp behind), then a commercial "success" like that of Lisp is one I | would not wish on any friend. perhaps you might want to consider a few facts, too, preferably first-hand, recent ones? thank you for sharing your prejudices, though. #\Erik -- how to beat Microsoft, death, and poverty: in July 1994, there were more references to my name (3039) in gopherspace than to Microsoft (2557), death (2530), and poverty (2410). (http://veronica.sonoma.edu:8001/top1000.html)