Re: Lisp considered unfinished

[martyb@ix.netcom.com (Martin Brundage)]

In <ddyerD9pqo2.GKx@netcom.com> ddyer@netcom.com (Dave Dyer) writes: 
[...]
>In short, lisp is well on its way back to where it always was; as an
>amusing backwater of the computer industry; of interest only to a few
>academics trying to do things that are completely impractical anyway.

How about rapid prototyping? It seems unlikely that C++ will ever meet that 
need. C and C++ seem to be more accidents of history than anything else. Does 
it ever seem strange to you that nearly everybody is writing apps, both large 
and small, in a portable assembler language? Hardware is decreasing in cost 
exponentially but software costs (probably) rise. Where do you think the 
industry is going to find additional productivity? Delphi?

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Marty
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