From: Espen Vestre <e...@nextel.no>
Subject: Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace
Date: 1997/02/27
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o...@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:

> In short, "the way the majority of software people work" is the way to avoid.
> The reality is terrifying.  People of good will must strive against that way.

Even more terryfying is the fact that multi-million, even multi-billion
development flops happen again and again and again, and STILL people
keep on talking as if there was all these extremely structured, well-
educated programmers using all these industrial-strength foolproof
systems out there in the real world.

I have a theory that the main loop of one of the most popular 
programs of the world has a main loop that starts by asking
itself whether the user just entered the 3987th palindromic
prime  number and ends up by investigating whether any windows 
are open....

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  Espen Vestre,
  Oslo, Norway