We still have that problem today though. People want quick easy to use glue languages without having to burden themselves with the constructs needed in a systems language.
Tcl/Tk
Jaxon Richardson
Daniel Cooper
Gov schooling is terrible
Owen Young
The Tcl documentation isn't terrible, but the worst part is the Wiki. You search for how to do something, and you get a 20 year old discourse from guys debating over their favorite way of getting it done.To this day, I've never seen documentation comparable to the quality of the Racket Guide and Reference, in which every function in every example is hyperlinked to a reference definition.
Jonathan Green
No one was using that shit. One of the biggest early internet sites in terms of page views was eBay which was written in C++ for IIS. Another was Google which rolled its own.
James Carter
Being this young