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Greg Menke  
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 More options Jun 24 2005, 10:49 pm
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Greg Menke <gregm-xyz...@toadmail.com>
Date: 24 Jun 2005 22:49:08 -0400
Local: Fri, Jun 24 2005 10:49 pm
Subject: Re: ILC 2005: Microsoft Demands Surrender, CL Says It Has Not Yet Begun to Fight

Kenny Tilton <ktil...@nyc.rr.com> writes:
> This correspondent's chin hit the floor when he realized this speaker
> was from Microsoft:
>     http://pdcbloggers.net/Question_and_Answer/PNL02/Patrick_Dussud.category

> Mr. Dussud was favored with one of the closing plenary sessions of the
> conference, and used it to suggest Common Lisp cripple itself in various
> ways (help me, someone: static typing is all I remember) so it could
> have the honor of running on Microsoft's CLR. Well, OK, the motivation
> would be in the title of the paper "Re-inventing Lisp for Ubiquity".

Its the inevitable refrain from people not actually trying to do
something with Lisp, but flogging some abstract agenda which they think
relates.  There must be a corollary to Greenspun that addresses the
consequences of trying to force high level languages into a C/C++
runtime.  Either you shoot off your feet or you trip over your
shoelaces- either way your nose ends up in the dog poop on the sidewalk
in front of you.

Gregm


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