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From: "ConsideredOpinion" <alex_pe...@yahoo.com>

Date: 3 Nov 2004 18:57:12 -0800

Local: Wed, Nov 3 2004 9:57 pm

Subject: Re: Practical Lisp: What are you working on, really?

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I am continuing to evolve a system that generates business applications
for .NET in C#. It is like a domain specific language with an
underlying framework. (It could easily generate Java or other
languages.)

We have been using it in its evolving state for about 5 years now and
it is giving us about a 10-1 productivity gain in the initial
development. Since the generated code is (now) essentially bug free,
this also saves LOTS of time. And it is MUCH easier to evolve programs
too - more savings.

Why do we not just use Lisp as the delivery language? It comes down to
components. .NET (and Java) have huge choices of commercially available
components for GUI, Infrastructure, Database, ... (not available in
Lisp).

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