Here's a link to PG's essay and speech excerpts on why Lisp is great for web-based applications (2001) - http://www.paulgraham.com/lwba.html http://www.paulgrah

Here's a link to PG's essay and speech excerpts on why Lisp is great for web-based applications (2001) - http://www.paulgraham.com/lwba.html http://www.paulgraham.com/lwba.html PG delivered a similar message to my undergraduate CS class in 1996/7 as a guest speaker when he was working on Viaweb and extolling the virtues of LISP for server-side web applications.