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If Steve Jobs when announcing the iPhone SDK had said that Apple's way forward was Lisp and how great the Meta-Object Protocol[1] was for the future, developers
by protomyth 8y ago
If Steve Jobs when announcing the iPhone SDK had said that Apple's way forward was Lisp and how great the Meta-Object Protocol[1] was for the future, developers, regardless of their beliefs, would have gone and made Lisp popular. Some things have the killer use.
Look at Javascript, it is not a good enough language to have developed without Netscape putting it into the browser. It had the killer application that you were basically forced to use. I love prototype-based inheritance but even NewtonScript was a better language.
1) Steve Job's videos for NeXT explaining objects were pretty amazing