RE: [Axiom-developer] Lisp portability

[Bill Page]

On May 22, 2007 8:54 AM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> ...
> Waldek wrote: 
> | <rant>  People frequently wonder why Perl is more popular
> | than Lisp.
> 
> Oh, I thought it was Python :-) :-)
> 

People (ambiguous third parties...) often wonder why Python
is more popular than Perl ... ;)

More seriously, this issue of Lisp (non)portability is a
major problem. I can not believe that there are/were people
on this email list that touted the portablity of Lisp as
a reason for downgrading Axiom code to that level!

Regards,
Bill Page.