> I remember a joke about companies in the early 2000’s would say they used Java to encourage competitors to have development problems because “Java sucks, haha

> I remember a joke about companies in the early 2000’s would say they used Java to encourage competitors to have development problems because “Java sucks, haha”. Reminds me of a story about some person using LISP for a ecommerce website and being quite about it because lisp allowed them to develop much faster than their competitors. Lemme try to track it down. Edit: beating the average http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html