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From: captain@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Jeffrey Kirk)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: why lisp is dead
Summary: support your own!
Message-ID: <6008@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 10 Apr 90 12:43:14 GMT
References: <485@paradigm.com> <14980@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: captain@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Jeffrey Kirk)
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In article <14980@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> lgm@cbnewsc.ATT.COM
 (lawrence.g.mayka,ihp,) 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!
]>
]>Why? Mainly the unreasonable cost of the RUNTIME portion of a lisp.
]>
]>three costs:
]>(1) technical cost of the overly-complex and large runtime portions.
]>(2) financial cost-of-sales for runtime licenses.
]>(3) administrative costs of runtime licensing procedures.
]

Support your own LISP, take one of the public-domain LISPS and add/subtract
what you want.  This solves 1-3 above.
-- 
ZZ
:wq!
.                     Jeff C. Kirk: captain@vax1.acs.udel.edu
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