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 More options May 4 2008, 7:34 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: globalrev <skanem...@yahoo.se>
Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 04:34:26 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sun, May 4 2008 7:34 am
Subject: Re: Are we close to a Lisp boom ?
On 4 Maj, 06:24, vanekl <va...@acd.net> wrote:

> Ken Tilton wrote:

> > vanekl wrote:
> >> Spiros Bousbouras wrote:

> >>> If it's true that as we progress in time, successive
> >>> fashionable languages resemble Lisp more and
> >>> more then Lisp's turn should come at some point.

> >>> Do you agree with this argument ? If yes, would
> >>> you say we're close to a Lisp boom ?

> >> IMO, not until CL goes through another standardization process,
> >> not for the language this time, but for a few libraries:
> >> comm, stream, unicode, thread.

> > Yeah, the damn thing is unusable as it is.

> unusable? needlessly inconvenient would be a better choice of words,
> methinks. Python has its advantages; ignoring them is... never mind.

> >> Too bad there isn't a benevolent angel that could fund such
> >> an expenditure <hint>PG</hint>.

> > Nah, he went broke trying to do a start-up with CL, a Web store I think.

> Time to put the cork back in the bottle. The bar is closed. Make sure
> you tip your waitress on the way out. Thank you and drive safely.

> > kt

dont know if u misunderstood or not but he is referring to Paul Graham
that
started Viaweb in 1995 which was sold to Yahoo for around 50million
dollars in 1998.
Graham is now working on Arc, a Lisp-dialect.

http://www.paulgraham.com/
http://arclanguage.org/


 
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