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But why does it anger you so much? Besides, you seem to be ignoring that ViaWeb was built before there were ubiquitous open source libraries for practically ev

But why does it anger you so much? Besides, you seem to be ignoring that ViaWeb was built before there were ubiquitous open source libraries for practically everything. My guess is that they basically had to write the whole server/application/persistence/security/payment stack themselves from scratch. Considering that they were able to build it all with a handful (2-4?) of programmers and to beat out competition that had a head start and a much higher head count, I would wager that Lisp had at least a little something to do with it.

batista 14y ago
>But why does it anger you so much? So much? I just made a comment, it's not like I'm running around foaming at the mouth, is it? >Besides, you seem to be ignoring that ViaWeb was built before there were ubiquitous open source libraries for practically everything. My guess is that they basically had to write the whole server/application/persistence/security/payment stack themselves from scratch. Considering that they were able to build it all with a handful (2-4?) of programmers and to beat out competition that had a head start and a much higher head count, I would wager that Lisp had at least a little something to do with it. I agree. But wouldn't something like Smalltalk be equally good for the same purpose? Or Perl?