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Re:Learning Common Lisp to beat Java and Rust on a phone enc... by bcrosby95 on Friday October 01, 2021 @03:51PM (#28722658)
None of those languages were popular in the 90s.
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Re:Learning Common Lisp to beat Java and Rust on a phone enc... by dragonwriter on Saturday October 02, 2021 @12:15PM (#28729752)
> None of those languages were popular in the 90s.

JS was, because browsers. Python was starting to be toward the end of the 90s. Ruby (as I understand) was in Japan though it wasn't until Rails took off that it became popular elsewhere. Perl (not on the list but similar to those on the list) definitely was.

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Re:Learning Common Lisp to beat Java and Rust on a phone enc... by brabel on Saturday October 02, 2021 @12:31AM (#28725973)
Pearl was!
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