in reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: "There are some stunningly novel ideas in Perl" -- Paul Graham
in thread "There are some stunningly novel ideas in Perl" -- Paul Graham
by writing business type apps in a reasonable timeframe for a reasonable budget. Oh, and he did it in one of the languages that you listed as "useless" for exactly that purpose.
I'm not trying to get inbetween the flamethrowers here... Y! Store was written in LISP and gave the company a great advantage but OTOH, they did just move the whole platform over to C and (uncredited Perl).
-Lee
"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."