From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!134.222.94.5!npeer.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Where's your Lisp software, Janos Blazi? References: <3b97d110_1@news.newsgroups.com> <87elpjn19q.fsf@nkapi.internal> <9nbb15$51s$0@216.39.145.192> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3208894128011321@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 23:28:48 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 999905328 193.90.205.95 (Sat, 08 Sep 2001 01:28:48 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 01:28:48 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:15897 * Tim Moore > To return to Lisp for a second... I personally think that Free Lisp > software -- both implementations and applications -- are important > because it allows future engineers, managers and decision makers i.e., > students, an opportunity to be exposed to The Lisp Way and to use it for > real applications. IMHO the most exciting things going on in the Lisp > world right now are in the free software realm. Why is it not sufficient to get your hands on cost-free or extremely inexpensive commercial Common Lisp implementations? ///