Interesting. There was this company called Vignette (in the same period). They too were doing .com projects for clients, and, IIRC, using AOLServer which I read was in Tcl. Tcl was used for the projects.
Yep, some of our guys went to work for them in projects across the Iberian Penisula.
Re:The Idea of Lisp
by qwertyuiop924 on Friday December 16, 2016 @10:27AM
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That's a good idea.
Although they've been working on TCL perf (and even compilation) and there have been some improvements, especially when you're not doing metaprogramming. But still, using it on heavy loads isn't a great idea...
(I mean, honestly. I'm starting to think picolisp might be faster, and picolisp has 3 types and one data structure. Haven't run the benches yet, though.)
Hmm, was that the one headed by Phil Greenspun? Arsdigita or something like that...?
Back in the day, aolserver w/ TCL + (open)acs + pgsql/oracle was teh awesomeness compared to LAMP that everyone else was doing. Oh well... :(
The speed critical parts were written in C and loaded as TCL extensions.
Back in the first .com wave.
It also taught me to never again use a programming language without JIT/AOT compiler on their standard toolchain for heavy loads.