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After all, MS will learn some Lisp by looking at Viaweb sources.

• byrneseyeview 20y ago
  Bill Gates says he knows Lisp: http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/gates.htm#tc2 http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/gates.htm#tc2
• papersmith 20y ago
  I think Yahoo rewrote Viaweb in C++. The only thing that's still remotely Lispy about it is that they kept RTML.
  • pg 20y ago
    That's pretty Lispy, because RTML is stored on disk as s-expressions. So rewriting Viaweb in C++ literally meant writing a Lisp interpreter.
    • jey 20y ago
      Wow, someone should give Yahoo an award for "Most literal application of Greenspun's Tenth Rule."
• neilc 20y ago
  Actually, plenty of people at Microsoft know Lisp.