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		pge on March 1, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lisp: A Language for Internet Scripting and Progra... Here's a link to PG's essay and speech excerpts on why Lisp is great for web-based applications (2001) - http://www.paulgraham.com/lwba.html PG delivered a similar message to my undergraduate CS class in 1996/7 as a guest speaker when he was working on Viaweb and extolling the virtues of LISP for server-side web applications.

nswanberg on March 1, 2014 [–]

It's strange that it took so long for someone to mention pg. Viaweb was written in lisp, and the site we're on is in arc, a lisp dialect.

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