Subject: Re: Reddit Guys on the Pros and Cons of Lisp
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 07:01:51 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <iJidnStMTdmiCgzeRVn-tg@speakeasy.net>
Ulrich Hobelmann  <u.hobelmann@web.de> wrote:
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| Paul Foley (http://public.xdi.org/=pf) wrote:
| > More likely: "HMS Reddit scuttled".  [How many times have you heard of
| > things that started life in Lisp, worked well, got rewritten into some
| > other language (esp. C++) and /not/ failed miserably?]
| 
| Hm, don't know, aren't Yahoo's stores still doing fine?
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Perhaps, but it's *NOT* still in Lisp!!  :-(

About 5 years after Yahoo! bought Viaweb from Graham & Morris
[about 4 years after Graham left] the Lisp code was Greenspun'd
into C++ [see Footnote #1 of <http://paulgraham.com/avg.html>].


-Rob

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