Re: Dylan (DYnamic LANguage) -- what's the deal?

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• Subject: Re: Dylan (DYnamic LANguage) -- what's the deal?
• From: Jonathan Guthrie <jguthrie@brokersys.com>
• Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 20:30:01 -0400 (EDT)
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Scott McKay <swm@mediaone.net> wrote:
> China Black & Blue wrote in message ...
>>/ 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.

> What's your point?  That commercial success is an indicator
> of excellent technology?  So explain why Apollo failed, despite
> its high level of excellent technology.

I'm not sure I would describe "sold to HP for hideous amounts of money
and still being produced as one of the HP-400 workstation lines" as being
a commercial failure.

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