Land Of Lisp is out

[namekuseijin]

On 28 out, 07:02, p... at informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
> Alain Ketterlin <al... at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
> > Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l... at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes:
>
> >>>> Would it be right to say that the only Lisp still in common use is the
> >>>> Elisp built into Emacs?
>
> >>> There is a new version of Lisp called Clojure that runs on the Java
> >>> Virtual Machine (JVM) that is on the upswing.
>
> >> Now is not exactly a good time to build new systems crucially dependent on
> >> the continuing good health of Java though, is it?
>
> > Nonsense. See
> >http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ibm_and_oracle_to_collaborate
>
> Last time I remember a corporation having developed a nice software
> (NeXTSTEP), Sun joined it to make an "OpenStep", and a few years alter
> it was over, bought by Apple, and morphed into MacOSX, and none of my
> NeXTSTEP (or even OpenStep) programs compile anymore on my computers.
>
> In the meantime, I switched to Linux.

great, now you can use GNUStep:

http://gnustep.org/

:D

> So now IBM and Oracle join to make an OpenJDK?  

java is sinking, soon enough java programmers will be as rare and well
paid as COBOLlers...