On Wednesday 22 February 2006 21:30, Peter Seibel wrote: > On Feb 22, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Jeremy Smith wrote: > > Peter Siebel's comment about how I should have to pay a Lisp vendor > > to ask > > them to install ASDF seems wrong to me, because the suggestion is > > not for my > > benefit, but theirs. I will just continue using Clisp in the > > meantime, and > > the more dependent I get on it, the less interested I am in porting > > all my > > code to, say, Lispworks, because it might be 20% faster. > > You're right that they should do this for their own benefit. But at > the same time, it's not clear that using the Gardener's project to > unleash (however well-meaning) distributed denial of service attacks > on Lisp vendors' mailboxes does us any good. That was the only reason > I suggested folks avoid emailing vendors with whom they have no > dealings. > > -Peter
Hi, I understand. I didn't intend the consequences of my post to be a large-scale mass mailing to Lisp vendors, and unfortunately I forgot there's 400 people on the list. My apologies for not thinking it through properly. I suppose the best course of action would have been to email them myself. I have dealt with Franz before and they are very friendly to my suggestions, although I run a commercial/money-making non-web related product on Lisp so I am a potential customer. So I agree with you and I don't advocate anyone to email a Lisp company that they weren't already going to. Cheers, Jeremy. _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
