Erann Gat  <gNOSPAMat@flownet.com> wrote:
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| Anything sponsored by Microsoft is subject to significantly different 
| market dynamics than anything that is not sponsored by Microsoft.  
| Accordingly, VB is not a good analogy for Common Lisp.
| If MS supported Lisp we would not be having this conversation.
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True. Instead, we would be having *much* more anguished conversations
than this one (probably about how Microsoft-proprietary extensions were
destroying the Common Lisp standard)...  ;-}  ;-}


-Rob

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