From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: What Lisp to choose? Date: 2000/06/07 Message-ID: <3169388173699424@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 632253670 References: <39256F8E.EAB3FD45@altavista.net> <87wvkgy25y.fsf@quadium.net> <8gompj$1hc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <87vgzw2nuk.fsf@frown.inka.de> <8h2q2a$1qcn$1@counter.bik-gmbh.de> <393BE542.625E7A78@tscontrols.com> <8hiugm$2qa$1@counter.bik-gmbh.de> <393D3B85.ECCFC9EE@wanadoo.es> <8hl185$3jf$1@counter.bik-gmbh.de> <3169356872676933@naggum.no> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 960399379 15635 195.0.192.66 (7 Jun 2000 17:36:19 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 8800 8879; fax: +47 8800 8601; http://www.naggum.no User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.6 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Jun 2000 17:36:19 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * tom | Implementations from only a single vendor put customers at the | complete mercy of that vendor once they have built a product. The | vendor can charge up to the customer's pain threshold, and if they | drop the product, the customer is left stranded. Few people who are | responsible for a large software development project want to accept | that kind of risk, even if the tool is quite a bit better. Sounds good! Now explain Microsoft. #:Erik -- If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations.