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"Some furry guy who wrote emacs 40 years ago? Why is it that the web was built with php and perl?"

Try using Google? CL-HTTP has been around since 1994, Symbolics came out with the second ever commercial 3d animation package a few months after Wavefront in 1983 or 1984, first HDTV-capable digital editing systems in 1989 for Japan, etc. Most of the "hot" parallel processing stuff of today (Map/Reduce, futures, actors) was done in Lisp at MIT in the early 80s.

Just because you're too lazy to find out whether something exists doesn't mean it's not there.




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