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From: monnier@di.epfl.ch (Stefan Monnier)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Comparison: Beta - Lisp
Date: 16 Sep 1994 14:15:25 GMT
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In article <MAFM.94Sep16133030@wambenger.cs.uwa.edu.au>,
Matthew McDonald <mafm@cs.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> Unless you have competitive ports to x86, Sparc, Alpha, DEC & SG Mips,
> PA-RISC, and RS6k, few people are going to use a language. Not many
> people are going to bother explaining that performance matters to
> them, they're just going to ignore you when you try to tell them
> otherwise.

So true !
The best example is probably Visual Basic, right ?


	Stefan