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From: hall@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (Marty Hall)
Subject: Re: Future of LISP in NatLang/AI
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Organization: JHU/APL Research Center, Hopkins P/T CS Faculty
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Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 13:11:52 GMT
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In <831108471snz@wildcard.demon.co.uk> cyber_surfer@wildcard.demon.co.uk writes:
>In article <JIM.96May2151830@vapor.Franz.COM> jim@Franz.COM "Jim Veitch" writes:
>
>> So if Lisp is dead, we sure don't know about it.  And nor do a lot of other
>> people out there.  Don't let the great unwashed masses fool you.
>
>It could appear "dead" to many people, just as Fortran does,
>simply coz they don't see any apps written in it. [...]

I think it depends what circles you travel in. From your previous
postings, I gather you travel in PC circles, doing a particular type
of application. In the circles in which I travel, people tend to work
on large applications, and UNIX is pretty prevalent. Here, apps
written in Lisp are not uncommon. We have several military-related
simulation system in Lisp at my company (the Hopkins Applied Physics
Lab), plus lots of people hear about emacs and ICAD and AI-related
Lisp tools. And isn't AT&T using Lisp for their next generation phone
switching system (Global Broadband 2000)?

Cheers-
						- Marty
(proclaim '(inline skates))
<http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/lisp.html>
