Re: Lisp Machine considered paragon

[shriram@asia.cs.rice.edu (Shriram Krishnamurthi)]

yost@Yost.com (Dave Yost) writes:

> Is there a good survey article on the web somewhere you can
> point people to instead of making rhetorical exhortations?

These aren't "rhetorical exhortations".  These are statements made
from personal experience, from reading papers that have talked about
these things, and from discussions with people who have spent many
years working on such machines.

> A book on the subject would be a very good thing.
> It could be subtitled:

>    "The UNIX Hater's Manual Companion: A Better Way"

Guess what?  There's a book with almost this very title.  I haven't
read it yet, but from the excerpts I've seen, it seems to very much be
of this spirit.  Take a look at

http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/analysts/daniel/unix-haters.html

It's The UNIX-HATERS Handbook [sic], by Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise
and Steve Strassmann.

'shriram