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Historical note: Viaweb was written in lisp, so most of the users had a hard time customizing it (I heard of one book on modifying Viaweb, but have never actual
by redis_mlc 7y ago
Historical note: Viaweb was written in lisp, so most of the users had a hard time customizing it (I heard of one book on modifying Viaweb, but have never actually seen it.)
Yahoo eventually re-wrote it in another language.
- dragandj 7y agoWhereas if they wrote it in C++, the average store owner Joe would have a walk in the park with it?
- pphysch 7y agoDepending on how heavily metaprogramming is relied on, relatively so
- eru 7y agoYou are mixing up two layers. Viaweb was written in Common Lisp, but the end users used RMTL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTML). Whether you implement RTML in Python, Unlambda, Common Lisp or Rust doesn't make a difference to the user.