Actually, that was a custom app built on the tcl httpd (whose procs-as-paths structure was a revelation to me at the time). I also did some fun things like a Ja

Actually, that was a custom app built on the tcl httpd (whose procs-as-paths structure was a revelation to me at the time). I also did some fun things like a Java-style try/catch/finally system, which was useful when playing with xmlrpc. (Plus, the rest of that distributed system is in Java, so it felt like a nice idiom). I gently dispute your "bunch of Lisp programmers from MIT" characterisation - but only gently, because I know what you mean. TCL can give you The Macro Enlightenment (aka, "Oh, that's what 'code is data' means") before ever seeing Lisp - after which, of course, Lisp macros feel conceptually familiar - but the latter is definitely n times more powerful.