Comment Comment by systems Yahoo Stores rewritten from Lisp to C++ and Perl http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=s...So if you made it to sell it, you might wonna avoid really unpopular languages.Ruby compared to PHP have a lot smaller user community, but nowadays, one would never call Ruby unpopular.So there is a different between unpopular lisp and unpopular RubyLisp is not just unpopular, it's also really different from anything else, so harder to get in to. parent systems 18 years ago
So if you made it to sell it, you might wonna avoid really unpopular languages.
Ruby compared to PHP have a lot smaller user community, but nowadays, one would never call Ruby unpopular.
So there is a different between unpopular lisp and unpopular Ruby
Lisp is not just unpopular, it's also really different from anything else, so harder to get in to.