Subject: Re: Moving from Another Language to LISP?
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 08 Oct 2002 15:26:42 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3243079602495739@naggum.no>

* Ng Pheng Siong
| How do they (or you) deal with the Lisp code maintenance issue after
| you're done?

  With support contracts.  I always ensure that I have people who can take
  over for me.  Sometimes, customers have wanted to rewrite things that
  work into a more "mainstream" language.  These projects have always
  failed, however.  I find that moderately amusing, because no matter how
  hard you try to blame someone else for your failure, a working system
  simply and effectively mocks every attempt.  People whose purpose it is
  get their job done, do not desire to rewrite systems because some new
  manager has been to a Java conference and needs to defend the expenses.

-- 
Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder.
Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.