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From: shebs@utah-cs.UUCP (Stanley Shebs)
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Subject: Re: Thus spake the DoD...
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Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 14:00:59 EST
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In article <76@daisy.UUCP> david@daisy.UUCP (David Schachter) writes:
>
>Mr. Shebs asks for one thing that Pascal or Ada do better than Lisp.  One
>thing is that Pascal runs on the IBM  PC and other low-end, cheap, widely
>available hardware platforms.  If you want other people to buy your programs,
>this is can be an important thing.  Lisp has a reputation for not running well
>on small cheap boxes.  If this reputation is deserved, then Pascal is a better
>choice for some applications.  (Elegance isn't everything.  Profitability
>counts too.)

Our Lisp dialect PSL runs on 128K Macintoshes and is used by freshmen here.
However, it *does* use the entire available space and leaves only a very
small heap!  Harold Carr recently showed how to make compiled Lisp programs
work outside of a large environment - it hasn't been done in the past
because nobody was interested in exchanging a comfortable and sophisticated
environment for the crude and primitive ones usually associated with
C and Pascal (Un*x notwithstanding).

							stan shebs