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From: davis@ilog.fr (Harley Davis)
Subject: Re: Yes, but how much will it cost?
In-Reply-To: tad1@cornell.edu's message of Fri, 31 Mar 1995 11:10:33 -0500
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Date: 31 Mar 1995 17:07:28 GMT


In article <tad1-3103951110330001@tad1.cit.cornell.edu> tad1@cornell.edu (Tom Dimock) writes:

   In article <1995Mar27.185511.19398@VFL.Paramax.COM>,
   dave@gvls1.vfl.paramax.com (David Lee Matuszek) wrote:

   It reminds me of a cartoon I used to have on the wall of my office.  A
   medieval king was brushing off a machine gun salesman, saying "I'm sorry,
   but I don't have time to look at this.  I've got a war to fight!"  Any
   manager who will not consider a new tool just because it might require
   training is a total loser in my opinion.  If he uses "good business sense"
   and develops in C++, and I beat him to market by re-training for Dylan and
   speeding up my development, who wins?  Who had the better "business
   sense"?

I would be curious to know of any real cases where the time-to-market
advantage accrued by using a dynamic (or otherwise more productive)
language in a commercial application has been demonstrably (or even
arguably) useful.  I am sure other proponents of dynamic languages
would also like to hear of such cases.

-- Harley Davis
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