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bitwize on Jan 15, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: SLT – A Common Lisp Language Plugin for Jetbrains ...

Sure, you can get nerfed tools at lower license tiers. But if you can get full tooling with a UI that's more modern than Windows XP for some other language for less, why not pay less? This is why Lisp got its lunch ate in the 90s: Lisp vendors vastly overestimated the willingness of developers to pay dearly for Lisp when they can get 80% of Lisp for no or much more reasonable cost.

pjmlp on Jan 16, 2023 [–]

They underestimated the success of UNIX workstations, which weren't properly cheap, even though they got the UNIX source for peanuts.

In any case the original comment wasn't about software prices, thus the goal has been moved for quite a bit.

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