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From: alms@cambridge.apple.com (Andrew L. M. Shalit)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: why lisp is dead
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Date: 9 Apr 90 22:23:24 GMT
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In-reply-to: kend@tekchips.LABS.TEK.COM's message of 9 Apr 90 19:30:40 GMT

In article <5951@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM> kend@tekchips.LABS.TEK.COM (Ken Dickey) writes:

   In article <485@paradigm.com> gjc@paradigm.com writes:
   ...
   >So when I go to write an expert system at a startup-company
   >do I decide to use LISP?
   >
   >NO!


   Perhaps you should try Scheme.  Aside from the academic/no-cost
   compilers with source, Chez Scheme [Cadence Research Systems: (812)
   333-9269] has an application builder which links in a minimal runtime
   for stand-alone applications.  Chez runs on Sun3/4, Vax, Apollo, 88K
   and various other boxes.

Ken also probably should have mentioned MacScheme (Lightship Scheme?)
which can produce ~120K applications for distribution.  I believe
there is no licensing fee.

Also, MACommonLisp (disclaimer alert!) has a single shot licensing
fee.  That is, a developer pays $100 a year, for any number of copies
of any number of applications.

  -andrew