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Re:The Slate Programming Language by lispm on Friday December 19, 2014 @06:31AM (#8771832)
That's difficult. Symbolics alone had a billion dollar revenue in the 80s (sum of the years), with a maximum of 1000 employees. Then there were TI, Xerox, Franz, Lucid, LispWorks, Intellicorp, ... as companies. I'd guess that Lisp earned in direct sales around 2-3 billion dollars in the 80s... In a much smaller market. Inflation adjusted that would be 4-6 billion dollar today. A large Lisp company today might employ 20-40 people. Large user groups in companies might have less than hundred employees (like ITA/Google had (has?) a few years ago).
Re:The Slate Programming Language by mej10 on Friday December 19, 2014 @09:54AM (#8772427)
Wow, I never realized Symbolics was that big. Were they just not able to keep up in the era of cheap, commodity hardware for workstations?
Re:The Slate Programming Language by hga on Sunday December 21, 2014 @08:37AM (#8779721)
A lot of that, a lot of NIH, and a lot of bad behavior and very bad management.