It all did die because of Java, or at least went into hibernation. Common Lisp, true or not, was known as an AI language and died because it was attached to th

It all did die because of Java, or at least went into hibernation. Common Lisp, true or not, was known as an AI language and died because it was attached to the AI winter. C++ was killed by Java for a lot of business software, including at my company. It won what I call the 80/20 battle, meaning it gave you 80% of what the old technology gave you for 20% of the hassle. You still had OO, but didn’t have to worry about pass by reference vs. pass by value, interfaces got you out of the multiple inheritance diamond problem, and garbage collection of course. Do you think if your application server was in Common Lisp or Perl that it would have sold for a lot? Other losers of the 80/20 battles, Java over C++, XML over SGML, JSON over XML. Cobra…shudder. Oh and COM, don’t forget COM. My greatest accomplishments in my career were avoiding going into management and avoiding COM.