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Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996) by agumonkey on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:02PM (#29826167)
Yeah I remember steele saying they wanted to make c++ move toward lisp.

But you got me curious.. what kind of backend code was written in c++ ? did people write server side logic in it ? I remember seeing some Oracle C code but it felt like a strange thing and not a c/c++ land. But to be honest that's not my world.

Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996) by pbourke on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:31PM (#29826620)
C++ was quite common back in the day. Amazon began as a C++ monolith (obidos).