[info-mcl] digitool (MCL) / clozure (OpenMCL)

[Toomas Altosaar]

>On Oct 4, 2007, at 06:30 , Henry Lieberman wrote:
>
>>  Mark,
>>
>>  I don't know the absolute numbers, but my guess is that the Lisp 
>>  community as a whole has been roughly stable due to two factors: 
>>  (1) an outflux of Lisp users who get guns put to their head forcing 
>>  them to stop using Lisp, and (2) an influx of young people who get
>  > introduced to it ...

And this model implies that the amount of money wielding influential 
Lisp exponents in near zero since:

- those making money are either happy making money (and don't need a 
better IDE/environment)

- those not making any money are being forced out due to internal or 
external forces,

- and young people coming in by definition have empty pockets since 
they are spending time getting up to speed.

Seems to explain the current Lisp situation quite accurately.