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No one was making web applications with anything. The consumer-facing web was still in its infancy. > It was started in 1995 and acquired in 1998, so that wasn
by zelly 7y ago
No one was making web applications with anything. The consumer-facing web was still in its infancy.
> It was started in 1995 and acquired in 1998, so that wasn't a very long time for lisp to come into the public consciousness
Lisp was the only game in town other than C for multiple decades. Absolutely everyone learned it in university. It was the main garbage collected scripting language, like Python today.
- pjmlp 7y agoDuring the 80's and 90's that place belongs to Basic dialects, not Lisp. And when Viaweb came to be, there was also ML, Smalltalk, Perl and Tcl to choose from. This if we focus only on the context of UNIX, because otherwise the language spectrum gets even wider.