[agumonkey]

Yeah I remember steele saying they wanted to make c++ move toward lisp.

But you got me curious.. what kind of backend code was written in c++ ? did people write server side logic in it ? I remember seeing some Oracle C code but it felt like a strange thing and not a c/c++ land. But to be honest that's not my world.

[pbourke]

C++ was quite common back in the day. Amazon began as a C++ monolith (obidos).