Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!corton!ilog!barbes!davis From: davis@barbes.ilog.fr (Harley Davis) Newsgroups: comp.lang.clos Subject: Re: CLOS' popularity Message-ID: Date: 26 May 91 19:46:59 GMT References: <42236@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: davis@ilog.fr Organization: ILOG S.A., Gentilly, France Lines: 31 In-reply-to: larry@tweety.Berkeley.EDU's message of 24 May 91 02:29:02 GMT 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