From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Anyone remembers LISPOS? Date: 2000/08/14 Message-ID: <3175268082739765@naggum.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 658234078 References: <8n0aqa$ds7$1@cubacola.tninet.se> <3174990885931174@naggum.net> <39952D75.28DB@esatclear.ie> <8n904l$1uer$1@counter.bik-gmbh.de> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 966279541 27521 195.0.192.66 (14 Aug 2000 18:59:01 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 8800 8879; fax: +47 8800 8601; http://naggum.no; http://naggum.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Aug 2000 18:59:01 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Martin Cracauer | I think the real reason why LispOS as such did not went anywhere is | that Lisp and Lispers are about doing *new* things. Plainly | reimplementing something that already exists does not attrack most | capable Lisp hackers. Well, I disagree. If you can do something right that has been done wrong umpteen times before, you will find few programmers more willing to seize the opportunity do it right than Lisp programmers. I think that's why designing a LispOS has an appeal to begin with. #:Erik -- If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations.