Subject: Re: Is LISP dying? From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1999/07/18 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3141319774179171@naggum.no> * hs@inferno.nirvananet (Hartmann Schaffer) | The problem is that the cost to investigate whether its worth investing | in is somewhat steep. this must have been in the times of _really_ expensive long distance or international phone calls. if you get a system for a period to try it out, without paying for it or with a full refund policy, what does it _take_ to satisfy your demands? I don't know a single market where you are actively disallowed from determining whether you can use a product _except_ software _other_ than Lisp environments. and considering that people can learn Common Lisp with free environments, just what are you going to consider before investing in a commercial environment that needs it to be free or extremely low-cost? all of you guys who scream and shout about low-cost Common Lisp systems, do you _really_ go out and _buy_ the low-cost versions of all the environments of all the languages out there to try them out? I don't think anybody actually does that. if you wanted to take a test-drive, how come you accept the policies that come with shrink-wrapped software? I wonder: what is the _real_ argument behind all these weird claims? #:Erik -- @1999-07-22T00:37:33Z -- pi billion seconds since the turn of the century