Subject: Re: Barriers to Lisp acceptance - a "survey" question From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1999/03/01 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3129294462194158@naggum.no> * David E. Young <de.young@computer.org> | Hello Don. You're correct, of course; I can (and do) use vendor-specific | code for both IPC and threads. However, having these features as part of | the language would allow engineers (and managers) to hedge their bets in | the event their favorite Lisp vendor meets an untimely end. but note that this untimely end is more likely to occur the more people reject to buy because of a fear of it, the more people bitch and moan about not getting everything for free, and the more people remove the incentive to help people who aren't going to pay for it immediately. in all this clamor for free stuff, I don't see any answers to the very timely question "why would _I_ want to do that?" that people who might want to give away stuffer others want would have to get a good answer to. I get a little depressed when so few people are ready to _contribute_ free stuff before they _want_ things. if you want a standard socket interface and it doesn't exist, go ahead and _write_ it, damnit. [ this has not specifically been directed at David. ] #:Erik