[Gardeners] CL Gardeners: good news, bad news, how to win big

[Peter Seibel]

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

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