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		zandorg on June 2, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web Applications Should Be Compiled Viaweb used C on the backend.

pg on June 2, 2009 [–]

Not really. The shopping basket (this was before everyone settled on "cart") was written in C, but the shopping basket wasn't the back end of the rest of the system, just one of several components that ran in parallel.

zandorg on June 2, 2009 | [–]

I stand corrected. I just remember reading about Viaweb using C on your website. But I was right in that the cart used it.

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