Re: 64-bit Professional versions?

That's why I switched back to CCL.

On Apr 8, 2013, at 12:24, Jeff Massung <massung@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:49 AM, <anders.vinjar@bek.no> wrote:

Hi Dave, and everyone else.

>>>>> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:36:22 +0100 (BST), davef@lispworks.com said:

>> Hi
>>
>> Will there be 64-bit Professional versions of LispWorks at some
>> stage?

DF> There's no plan for that.

I think the LW team does a fantastic job, but can I ask what the thinking is with respect to this?

I could understand this 5-6 years ago when 64-bit was new, most people didn't have it, and there was a real cost to updating LW to be 64-bit compatible. But today, I don't believe it's even possible any more to purchase a desktop or OS today without it being 64-bit (at least in the US). Third party libraries that I get via Homebrew (a Mac version of apt-get) are all 64-bit and I can't use them via FLI without downloading and recompiling them by hand.

Without meaning to sound rude, I can't think of a reason to charge 4-5x the price for a 64-bit version other than "we can" and "people will pay it". Is there a real technical reason behind this?

That said, I'm a single-person user. I'm not a company, I use LW for personal projects like a chess (PGN) game viewer.

Jeff M.