From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Is LISP dying? Date: 1999/07/27 Message-ID: <3142050893711097@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 505694526 References: <7m8bm7$dni$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <378ca7ff.66785883@asgard> <7njccp$8kq$1@shell16.ba.best.com> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Lars Marius Garshol | Finding someone who knows Common Lisp is hard and it takes months to | train someone to use it. this isn't my experience. perhaps your manager was looking for Common Lisp programmers in the mainstream section of the market? I also have a hard time believing the training period. on the other hand, finding a _good_ programmer is damn hard in today's market, no matter which language you're targeting, but you can find people who claim to know any hyped-up, popular language. as I have said previously, people lie about their Java skills all the time, but still get hired. you can't lie about Common Lisp skills. perhaps this keeps eager newbies out, since a lot of the training you imply would be needed for Common Lisp is spent writing production code in Java. #:Erik -- suppose we blasted all politicians into space. would the SETI project find even one of them?