From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: some stuff about the 2002 International Lisp Conference in SF Date: 10 Nov 2002 18:59:21 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3245943561940161@naggum.no> References: <_hMy9.1126$Aq5.112540@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <4wunnhj3b.fsf@beta.franz.com> <3DCE8145.1070605@nyc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1036954762 888 129.240.65.201 (10 Nov 2002 18:59:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Nov 2002 18:59:22 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:46205 * Andre van Meulebrouck | I agree that consumers vote with $$ and reputations, but I think they are | voting against LISP not for it. So much group think. Is there no word for "individual" in your language? | For instance, .Net isn't language centric; how about targeting .Net with CL? .NET is too lacking. | How about adding extensions to Scheme to make it of interest to real | world applications? Ask someone who cares over in comp.lang.scheme. | When you see the herd is going Microsoft, target Microsoft technologies: | dovetail CL with COM! When you see the herd going in any particular direction, choose another. | I would especially like to see .Net targeted. Microsoft might seem like | the Roman Empire to LISP; but the good news is it is very LISP friendly | (if the LISP world only knew that!). It may be Scheme friendly (JVM is), but it is not Common Lisp friendly. Please upgrade your brain with this patch: "Scheme and Common Lisp are not interchangeable languages in /any/ respects". Thank you. -- 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.