🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <42236@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> larry@tweety.Berkeley.EDU (Larry Rowe) writes:

   Now let's get real.  You own a $500K house and you're about
   to develop a new product for your very own company.  Would you
   bet your house on your ability to produce a *competitive* product
   using Lisp?

Yes.

   I.e., if you have a product that no one buys, you
   lose your house.  That's a big risk and most people making business
   decisions avoid as many risks as they can.

Fortunately, they're buying it.

   BTW, don't give me the superior productivity argument (i.e.,
   Lisp can produce high function systems rapidly) because I run
   on an 8 MB Sparcstation and I'm not going to run a >16MB calendar
   program.  Why 8 MB you ask?  No good reason.  But most commercial
   companies buy 500 workstations at a time and they can't afford
   to by an addition 16 MB for every workstation.

And they shouldn't have to, and they don't.

-- Harley Davis
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
nom: Harley Davis			ILOG S.A.
net: davis@ilog.fr			2 Avenue Gallie'ni, BP 85
tel: (33 1) 46 63 66 66			94253 Gentilly Cedex, France