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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Subject: Re: Anyone remembers LISPOS?
Date: 2000/08/14
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* Martin Cracauer
| I think the real reason why LispOS as such did not went anywhere is
| that Lisp and Lispers are about doing *new* things.  Plainly
| reimplementing something that already exists does not attrack most
| capable Lisp hackers.

  Well, I disagree.  If you can do something right that has been done
  wrong umpteen times before, you will find few programmers more
  willing to seize the opportunity do it right than Lisp programmers.
  I think that's why designing a LispOS has an appeal to begin with.

#:Erik
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