> It was the advantages of using Lisp which gave them the ability to create the right product at the right time Obviously, because they used Lisp, they were ab

> It was the advantages of using Lisp which gave them the ability to create the right product at the right time Obviously, because they used Lisp, they were able to produce the product at time t, and any other language would have produced it at a different time t'. I claim that they had no idea that t was better than t'. Nobody can. It was a fluke, like many success stories.