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Re:PG: If starting Viaweb today, would you use Lisp? by palish on Friday July 27, 2007 @11:10AM (#37087)
I'm referring to languages that weren't primarily pushed by big companies to make them popular. For example, Ruby.
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Re:PG: If starting Viaweb today, would you use Lisp? by brlewis on Friday July 27, 2007 @01:45PM (#37127)
Would you describe PHP as having discipline built in? I notice for your CL example of lack of discipline you chose a namespace issue.
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Re:PG: If starting Viaweb today, would you use Lisp? by palish on Friday July 27, 2007 @02:01PM (#37132)
It may be true that it only became popular because it was more disciplined than Perl, at least when it came to expressing websites.
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