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From: haible@laplace.ilog (Bruno Haible)
Subject: Re: Why is Lisp not more widely used?
In-Reply-To: Blake McBride's message of 16 Aug 1995 14:24:57 GMT
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Date: 21 Aug 1995 15:56:36 GMT

Blake McBride <blake@edge.net> writes:

   I'll port any of them so long as I don't have to fight the thing.

Any port of a big piece of software is a fight. Since the ports of CLISP
and GCL are usually doable within a couple of days or (at most) weeks, I
guess you were actually fighting your environment, notably your C compilers,
not "the thing".


Bruno Haible                                     email: <haible@ilog.fr>
Software Engineer                                phone: +33-1-49083585
