You might be right that that's how a Lisp advocate might have viewed Python and Perl back then but in reality they (plus PHP) were the go-to tools of the day fo

You might be right that that's how a Lisp advocate might have viewed Python and Perl back then but in reality they (plus PHP) were the go-to tools of the day for non-enterprise web programmers. Enterprisey people would view this as cowboy development.