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From: Tim Pierce <twpierce+usenet@mail.bsd.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace
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In article <330A09F3.1AA7@acm.org>, Sin-Yaw Wang  <sinyaw@acm.org> wrote:

>I ventured the answer, "Because Lisp is not natural to most software
>engineer."  I gave several examples on how it is not natural.  Many did
>not like my examples and attacked.

Software engineers are not natural, q.e.d.

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