[pretoriusB]

May I propose the alternative explanation that you are overstating the case for Lisp and this software, because you just happen to like Lisp? I mean, look at your HN alias.

That particular software could have been written in any bloody language. Logistics is one of the more boring areas of software engineering anyway -- and the majority of it in the world runs in Cobol, Java and similar boring languages, just like most of the banking world runs.

Plus, it's not like the US army haven't made a mess with war logistics. How much did the Iraq war cost to the country again?

[lispm]

In 1991 there was no Java to write an AI-based planning system for military logistics.

You may want to read what the software actually did and how it was developed. That would clear things up a bit for you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Analysis_and_Replanning...