0. What programming languages do you intimately know? 1. What are your preferred paradigms? 2. What software dev 'habits' piss you off? 3. Choose: Emacs, Vim, or <crap>?
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Going GNG is Not GNU2015-09-14 19:11
Correction: Yahoo stores, I believe, were the viaweb technology in action (rather than amazon). The joke with Viaweb is it wasn't really all that innovative. If you've every been to one of the old yahoo web stores, they are nothing special. You could write the same program using pretty much any language - there is no evidence at all that Lisp was required to do some magical job that some other language couldn't do. The yahoo web stores back in the day were extremely simple that had no specialties - they were dumbed down interfaces. Why you would need a powerful language to implement a yahoo store back then, is beyond me. It boils down to Woody Allen's rule "80 percent of life is just showing up". You could have written Yahoo stores in Assembly code and people would have purchased it, and rewritten it in some other CGI... Paul just happened to show up at the write time, it had literally nothing to do with Lisp.