From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace Date: 1997/03/05 Message-ID: <3066588599082020@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 223366391 References: <5edfn1$83b@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> <5efl85$33h@fido.asd.sgi.com> <5fi086$8cr@fido.asd.sgi.com> <5fkj2v$cto@fido.asd.sgi.com> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 2295 0313; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme * Mike McDonald | Remember, this was in one of those silly "Introduction to AI" classes. | Running Eliza in batch mode isn't very exciting. Now that I'm more | knowledgable about lisp, I can see where it's useful even in batch | mode. But I couldn't back then as a first introduction. I wonder if the purported failure in the marketplace is due _only_ to bad first introductions and resulting prejudice. once people get over their first introductions (or the bad (formal) introductions aren't their first), they seem to stay with Lisp. #\Erik -- if you think big enough, you never have to do it