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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, …

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…

If you are referring to Jamie Zawinski (jwz), yes, but after my time there.

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 …

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 themselv…

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 (a…

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 t…

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 …

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 li…