From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 15:27:17 +0100 From: Eris Discordia To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <422c2c66f1d93f0928ca31b8c1e0c927@hamnavoe.com> References: <422c2c66f1d93f0928ca31b8c1e0c927@hamnavoe.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] nice quote Topicbox-Message-UUID: 657f18de-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >>> One serious question today would be: what's LISP _really_ good for? > > http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html I could do a similar thing: ... and leave you wondering (or not). I won't. Paul Graham's essay/article consists of a success story, _his_ success story (which, in minor part, depends on continued sales of his two LISP books), and a variety of claims I am unqualified to verify or refute. What is there for me to learn? That there exists/existed one successful LISP application? Is that really what I had tried to negate? Besides, if quoting ESR were a measure of credibility I'd be given some when I appeared to 9fans out of the blue and quoted him saying something to the effect that Plan 9 is dead and buried because it wasn't up to replacing UNIX (at the moment, that is _not_ my opinion). --On Saturday, September 05, 2009 12:02 +0100 Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote: >>> One serious question today would be: what's LISP _really_ good for? > > http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html > >