>> This correspondent's chin hit the floor when he realized this speaker
>> was from Microsoft:

>> 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.