Subject: Re: What Lisp to choose? From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 2000/06/07 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3169388173699424@naggum.no> * tom <tmb at ncal point verio point com x@x.x> | Implementations from only a single vendor put customers at the | complete mercy of that vendor once they have built a product. The | vendor can charge up to the customer's pain threshold, and if they | drop the product, the customer is left stranded. Few people who are | responsible for a large software development project want to accept | that kind of risk, even if the tool is quite a bit better. Sounds good! Now explain Microsoft. #:Erik -- If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations.