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From: davis@ilog.fr (Harley Davis)
Subject: Re: Bigger is Better
In-Reply-To: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk's message of 28 Jul 1995 14:07:36 -0400
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Date: 31 Jul 1995 08:51:10 GMT


In article <8392.9507271711@subnode.aiai.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:

> As for market failure, there are many reasons.  There was a huge
> increase in the PC market in which Lisp barely participated.
> But in alomst all cases, implementations weren't even aimed at
> this "mainstream" market.  Not were they aimed at replacing C
> at what C does.  The idea that Common Lisp tried and failed
> is misleading at best.  

There were certainly Common Lisp companies which tried and failed.

-- Harley
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