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by skaphan 10y ago
Yes, there was a ton of Perl in the early days. This came about because Paul Davis was a Perl aficionado and did a lot of script writing with it early on, and the non-programmers, of which there were n-2, could pick it up much more easily
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by skaphan 10y ago
After leaving Lucid I was really not paying much attention to what they were doing. It wasn't long before things started going badly there and they were out of business a few years later. But indeed, I had forgotten what little of the
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by skaphan 10y ago
If you are referring to Jamie Zawinski (jwz), yes, but after my time there.
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by skaphan 10y ago
EB and I both worked at Lucid, which produced a Common Lisp system, not to my knowledge a version of Emacs (though maybe so after I left in 1989?). Some other early employees knew and liked Lisp, but we didn't use it on any core funct
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by skaphan 10y ago
It was used only in the form of Emacs Lisp, as a set of tools for customer service folks to make replying to typical email easier for them. They pretty much built all that themselves (and they didn't start out as programmers).
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by skaphan 15y ago
But ... in the one case we are aware of, of a whole company, Amazon, using a service oriented architecture, they did it after the fact. The did bolt it on later, or rather, they (according to Steve) ripped everything up and re-did it in th
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by skaphan 15y ago
It's definitely a little odd. In one way it is just a matter of semantics: what exactly does the word "founder" really denote? But some may be asking whether I personally was all that important in the company's history. I can't judge that
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by skaphan 15y ago
Hi. Shel Kaphan here. Just to be clear, the negotiation you are referring to was simply over whether it would be stock or employee options. No reason to be sad. Founder's stock is more convenient and less of a taxation nightmare, but there
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by skaphan 17y ago
At the risk of mentioning something I did myself, here is a simple, STM implementation in C: http://github.com/skaphan/stmmap . It's at a very different design point from others like Clojure's in that it is just a simple API, not a langu