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Subject: Re: Where's your Lisp software, Janos Blazi?
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* Tim Moore <moore@herschel.bricoworks.com>
> To return to Lisp for a second...  I personally think that Free Lisp
> software -- both implementations and applications -- are important
> because it allows future engineers, managers and decision makers i.e.,
> students, an opportunity to be exposed to The Lisp Way and to use it for
> real applications.  IMHO the most exciting things going on in the Lisp
> world right now are in the free software realm.

  Why is it not sufficient to get your hands on cost-free or extremely
  inexpensive commercial Common Lisp implementations?

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