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The wikipedia entry states viaweb was partially written in lisp .. would be interesting to know what part lisp played .. is pg in the house?
by xd 15y ago
The wikipedia entry states viaweb was partially written in lisp .. would be interesting to know what part lisp played .. is pg in the house?
- dpritchett 15y agoThis nine year old essay by pg is very well known: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html Our hypothesis was that if we wrote our software in Lisp, we'd be able to get features done faster than our competitors, and also to do things in our software that they couldn't do. And because Lisp was so high-level, we wouldn't need a big development team, so our costs would be lower. If this were so, we could offer a better product for less money, and still make a profit. We would end up getting all the users, and our competitors would get none, and eventually go out of business. That was what we hoped would happen, anyway.