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> because Lisp-like languages seem like they would be pretty cool for GUIs.

There was also Curl (a language, not the Net lib) some years ago. Tim Berners-Lee was involved in the company as an advisor or something. Around the 2000s, IIRC. Lisp-like in the sense that nested expressions were the main syntax. Had tried it briefly then. Was mainly for web apps though. Acquired later, maybe, by a Japanese company.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl_(programming_language)

It got a 2008 InfoWorld award in the RIA category.



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