From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!npeer.kpnqwest.net!nreader3.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Query About Lisp Use References: <3211475185647471@naggum.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3211490152230198@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 00:35:53 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader3.kpnqwest.net 1002501353 193.71.66.49 (Mon, 08 Oct 2001 02:35:53 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 02:35:53 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:17489 * James A. Crippen | The only application area that I've encountered where Common Lisp is | unsuited is in the embedded systems area. I've found that it is very | difficult to warrant using Lisp on a machine which will have <= 4 MBytes | of memory. Heh. There were perfectly usable Apple Macintoshes with that amount of memory providing what I am told (Espen?) would _still_ be a fantastic Lisp experience. /// -- My hero, George W. Bush, has taught me how to deal with people. "Make no mistake", he has said about 2500 times in the past three weeks, and those who make mistakes now feel his infinite wrath, or was that enduring care?