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Re:The Rise and Fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab. by DaniFong on Monday September 15, 2008 @02:37PM (#304920)
Lisp attracts the sort of people who want to bend the language to their will. As such, these same people bend systems, programs, and organizations to their will. Not particularly easy to manage.
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Re:The Rise and Fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab. by olavk on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @04:55AM (#305591)
bends organizations to their will - if that were the case, Lisp would be used at many more organizations (including Google and JPL), wouldn't it?
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Re:The Rise and Fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab. by Darmani on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @12:45PM (#305936)
Unfortunately, organizations have a much higher Young's modulus than languages.
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Re:The Rise and Fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab. by DaniFong on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @02:30PM (#306103)
Unlike languages, they nearly always push back...
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Re:The Rise and Fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab. by albertcardona on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @07:55AM (#305680)
Precisely it would not be.
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