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Yeah, another post praising the greatness of Lisp without any backup in actual evidence. Dude, you'd be infinitely more convincing having actually produced something great with Lisp or at least showing how its unique features can be used for this purpose. "Lisp is great, but the masses just don't get it" doesn't cut it.


I missed the "Lisp is great, but the masses just don't get it" bit so thanks for the interpretation. Isn't a short blog comment (take it or leave it) enough for you? The author's got to produce a thesis with full supporting documentation on a point you suppose he's making? This is straw dog stuff. I wonder why it gets you hot under the collar?


Out of curiosity, what kind of evidence would you accept?

The concept of the personal GUI workstation, the object-oriented database, and many other things you take for granted were introduced on Lisp Machines. Does this fact convince you of anything?




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