I'm sorry, Mark, but there's a ton of open-source CRM software written over the weekend and published in a matter of days.

As a matter of fact, if you'll go through the backlogs here at Hacker News you'll see a large number of "Game/Site/Tool/Language Written, Released in 3 days!" stories by members of this very community... in languages from C# to Lisp to Java to C and even ASM.

I agree, but they don't have the number of features that we have.

Really now? and how hard would that be for anyone who is proficient in their own language to implement those so called features you boast about? Feature set alone is a pretty weak argument imho.

> "[...] take a look at http://www.snapcrm.com which is a CRM and Collaboration Suite far superior to all open source CRMs and it was coded entirely using X# in 4 months."

How about that hubris, then?

And the power doesn't stop there, with XSLT you have a powerful macro system too!

Good point. Hey, aren't Lisp s-expressions just a less powerful form of XML nested structures? I think Lisp should be re-written in XML. So this:

   (defun factorial (n)
      (return (if (< n 2) 1
                  (factorial (-1 n)))))

Would become:

   <!DOCTYPE xmllisp>
   <program>
      <function name="factorial">
         <parameters>n</parameters>
         <return>
            <if><condition>n &lt 2</condition>
               <iftrue>1</iftrue>
               <iffalse>
                  <functionCall name="factorial">n - 1</functionCall>
               </iffalse>
            </if>
         </return>
      </function>
   </program>

Which I think we can all agree makes much more sense.

Bah! 5 months? Rails has an acts_as_crm plugin, I could've been done in 5 seconds. Next! :P