From: bk_usenet@yahoo.co.uk (BK)
Subject: Re: MCL5
Date: 9 May 2003 09:48:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39d9c156.0305090848.743ac725@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c366f098.0305090032.47838d51@posting.google.com
joswig@corporate-world.lisp.de (Rainer Joswig) wrote ...
> > ... why would I not wait until the thing *actually* ships?
>
> It is cheaper to get the beta now and later the shipping version. Right?
Well, I don't mind paying a little more for the certainty that it
actually ships when it ships ;-) I can't recall ever having paid for
beta software that was actually called beta software. I waited with
OSX until it was a commercial release as well (yes, I know many people
say that it was still de-facto beta until 10.1 or 10.2 depending on
opinion).
> A lot of people who have Lisp-based code written for earlier versions
> of MCL are already porting this code to the new Carbon-based MCL 5,
> using the beta version of MCL 5.
Certainly for those people it makes perfect sense. No doubt about it.
However, I don't have any such requirements.
thanks
rgds
bk
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2003-05-08 1:47 ` Is Emacs on Aqua crippleware or is it just broken? BK
2003-05-08 7:50 ` Rainer Joswig
2003-05-08 14:02 ` MCL5 BK
2003-05-09 8:32 ` MCL5 Rainer Joswig
2003-05-09 16:48 ` BK [this message]
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