Let's prey that those PHP geeks quickly discover the true joy of working with functionnals (map and al.).
I have often wondered about the ratio of Perl programmers still using the C-like <for> construct. I guess it's rather low. Franck. On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Tagore Smith wrote: > Rob Nagler wrote: > > > I think Yahoo Stores is written in Lisp. I also believe it handles > > the front and back end. Would be interesting to know why this was > > left out of the discussion. > > Yahoo store was originally ViaWeb and was written in Common Lisp. It was > one of the first large applications made available over the web. Paul Graham > has an article about it at http://www.paulgraham.com/paulgraham/avg.html > > ViaWeb was deployed using clisp, a very portable, but somewhat > incomplete, common lisp implementation that compiles lisp to bytecode. I > believe (take this with a grain of salt, as it's third hand) that ViaWeb > only presented dynamic content to the merchant, not to the user of the > merchant's site- it was a web application that built static web sites. Each > merchant had their own dedicated lisp listener to nteract with. > > This probably isn't the model that Yahoo had in mind, and it might not > have occured to them that the commercial Lisps have native threads. Using > clisp would also obscure one of the big advantages to using lisp- many lisp > implementations compile to native code, so they're very efficient. Also, I'd > imagine that you can hire just about any programmer to work on a PHP system; > even if they haven't seen PHP before they'll pick it up quickly (once they > get used to the weird reference semantics), and most of the work will be in > learning the libraries. Graham's system uses macros extensively, and from > other code of his that I've read (Graham wrote a couple of books about > Lisp), I'd bet that he uses recursion and mapping functions a lot as well. I > think it would be harder to hire people to work on his system (of course > you'd probably also get more experienced people, so that might not be such a > bad thing). > > Tagore Smith > > -- ==================================================== ESSENTIAL SOFTWARE - Ingénierie Informatique Solutions Linux & Open Source en Polynésie française ---------------------------------------------------- http://www.esoft.pf/ Tél: (689) 562 395 / 508 288-289 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- "Lassé des virus? Osez Linux, le choix moderne des gouvernements et des entreprises Fortune 500" ====================================================
