Re: Industry versus academia

[Eli Collins <address@hidden>]

> >   are secondary for many business is illustrated by Y Store. Yahoo _had_
> >   good tools (lisp dev environemt for Y Store) but threw them away.
> Ok.. I'll bite: what is this good lisp dev. environment you are
> talking about?
>

I'm just saying they used good tools (lisp, emacs?) and made smart
development environment choices (intel boxes, BSD, files rather than
Oracle, etc.) Namely they didn't get bogged down in a sun/msft money
pit. I'm sure someone else can elaborate more.

Eli