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Re: Dylan (DYnamic LANguage) -- what's the deal?
In article <398E97BC.8752E59E@h2g2.com>, robm@h2g2.com wrote:
> You can't judge something's cultural/historical value or its eventual
> impact by its immediate commercial success. Take Microsoft: please.
> With services and device drivers writable in J*v*, and the next version
> of C++ looking to add GC to go with the generic programming it's
> recently had tacked on, it's plain that the bleating "mainstream" is
> playing a slow game of catch-up with forty years of Lisp achievements.
> And, no, I'm not a Lisp booster by trade.
At that time these Lisp systems were a commercial success.
The Lisp companies sold hardware/software for several hundred
million dollars over the years.
>
> - Rob.
>
>
> China Black & Blue wrote:
> >
> > / By 1980, the Lisp Machine OS was written entirely in Lisp.
> > / And, by 1985, the Lisp Machine's front-end processor --
> >
> > A real commercial success.
--
Rainer Joswig, Hamburg, Germany
Email: mailto:joswig@corporate-world.lisp.de
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