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From: krulwich@kangaroo..arpa (Bruce Krulwich)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Ada,Lisp,Flames
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Date: 3 Feb 88 04:20:37 GMT
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In article <5084@well.UUCP> jjacobs@well.UUCP (Jeffrey Jacobs) writes:
>Ok!  Let's look at the facts; I hope that some of the rest of the net
>will contribute information on whatever they are doing.  Let's also
>keep "Lisp work" confined to development and implementation of Common
>Lisp, *not* applications, editors or what have you.

Limitting your outlook to development of LISP systems is a rediculous
way to judge Common LISP's acceptance in the CS world.  The purpose of
a language is to be used, in this case to be used largely for AI
programming.

When I was applying for jobs in AI a year ago almost every job I
looked into was doing its development in Common LISP.  As I recall,
only 2 out of more than a dozen were doing it in anything else.  These
places were a crossection of industry research, applications, and pure
research.

If Common LISP has become the language of choice for AI
research/programming, what is the difference how profittable its
developers are??


Bruce Krulwich

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