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If their competitors were writing their applications in C++ or Perl, it probably would have made a noticeable difference to their iteration speed. Writing a web
by snazz 6y ago
If their competitors were writing their applications in C++ or Perl, it probably would have made a noticeable difference to their iteration speed. Writing a web application in C++ (especially in 1995) would not have been too efficient.
I'm sure that they had a good understanding of their customers, but the language had to have made a difference as well. These days, we're writing web apps in languages like JavaScript and Ruby, not C++, so the difference would be a lot less significant.
- nojito 6y agoKnowledge of the customer and programming ability is the most important driver of success. The idea that LISP was a secret sauce for viaweb does not hold up under scrutiny. If you have access to lexisnexis to lookup news articles from the era, it’s easy to see that.
- oalae5niMiel7qu 6y agoGoogle is known to write a lot of their web apps in Java, which is very similar to C++.