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Good point. LispWorks has licenses for non-commercial usage that are a third of the price of the enterprise licenses. I wish the non-commericial licenses cost l
by diskzero 5y ago
Good point. LispWorks has licenses for non-commercial usage that are a third of the price of the enterprise licenses. I wish the non-commericial licenses cost less, just to bring more users to the platform, but once again, maintaining a viable company selling developer tools is difficult.
- sitkack 5y agoI was going to ask about training and certification from LispWorks, so I went to the site and was tragically underwhelmed by the knowledgebase and anything else resembling Lisp training or certification. If the platform is as powerful as claimed, I do believe btw, then it will take some time. It is a learned skill. I guess where I am getting with this, if a company makes LispWorks and Common Lisp part of their long term tech strategy, I would think that LispWorks would be more of a strategic partner than just a tools vendor. And in that regard, they should be offering language training, tooling training as well as certification. This is the prototypical MS Dev playbook from the 90s and it worked amazingly well. Sheparding library standards is another thing that I would expect out of a company like LispWorks
- lispm 5y agoFranz (Allegro CL) has training & consulting: https://franz.com/services/classes/ https://franz.com/services/classes/ https://franz.com/services/consulting/ https://franz.com/services/consulting/
- diskzero 5y agoVery good point. I can only assume that their resources are so constrained that they don't have the ability to provide the level of training and support truly needed. There is a chasm that has developed, perhaps dating back to when many of the commercial Lisp vendors switch focus to Java, that needs to be closed. As you said, it is tragic in many ways.