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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: Free ?
Date: 1997/04/15
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* Hrvoje Niksic
| Gcc, the free C compiler, surpasses it commercial counterparts, or is
| at least as good.  Why can't free Lisps like CMU CL or GCL be better
| than the commercial ones?

hmm.  G++ was inferior to commercial C++ compilers last time I checked.

but please, I didn't say free Lisps _can't_ be better than the commercial
ones, I'm only pointing out that they _aren't_, by a far cry.

#\Erik
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