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From: haible@laplace.ilog (Bruno Haible)
Subject: Re: Why is Lisp not more widely used?
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Date: 21 Aug 1995 17:13:43 GMT

Tim Bradshaw <tfb@ed.ac.uk> writes:

   I think you actually mean `the people involved in writing free /
   academic lisp systems' here.  Well, yes, those people are indeed
   interested in academic uses of Lisp: they are generally academics,
   it's what they're paid to do.

Exactly. Originally, as designed and implemented by two mathematics students,
CLISP should be the basis for a computer algebra system. A better bignum
calculator for the mathematician's every day use.

It is not surprising that academics don't pay much attention to possible
commercial success, unless their funds depend on it.

               Bruno


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