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Re:38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using ... by brlewis on Monday February 11, 2019 @08:13AM (#19134175)
If those were the reasons for LISP's lack of popularity, then LISP would have been more popular than Python or PHP.

What happened is that 1980s hardware was not ready for languages slower than C. C became the dominant language, and C-style syntax became the dominant syntax, with C++, Java and JavaScript following its lead. Eventually people adopted languages slower than C, but they didn't adopt paren-prefix notation.

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Re:38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using ... by kazinator on Monday February 11, 2019 @06:01PM (#19139356)
People used slower-than-C languages throughout the 1980's and onward: for instance BASIC-s (eventually Microsoft's Visual Basic starting in 1991), Ashton-Tate's dBase and its derivatives ("xBase").
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