Re: Bundling of layered software

[cjl@ai.mit.edu (Chris Lindblad)]

    Date: Thu, 22 Mar 90 10:05:17 EST
    From: buff%pravda@gatech.edu (Richard Billington)

    I think RDP's point is that there are some products which are clearly special-purpose
    (Macsyma and S-products and Joshua) while there are others which are more like other
    extensions to the standard programming environment (concordia - better documentation
    facilities for your code; statice - databases are, in my opinion, something everyone
    uses, although usually they do it by cobbling together something out of textfiles and
    code).

It is not clear to me that Macsyma, the S-products, and Joshua are any more
special purpose than Concordia and Statice.  In fact at my site many people
use Macsyma, the S-products and Joshua, while pretty much nobody uses
Concordia or Statice.  One's idea about what tools are important depends on
how one uses Lisp Machines.