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Re:Where Lisp Fails: at Turning People into Fungible Cogs by silentbicycle on Sunday December 27, 2009 @01:22AM (#1016798)
Nah, I think it's the git that Torvalds wrote when he decided that Monotone had some pretty cool ideas (the whole distributed VCS thing) but was slow and written in icky C++.
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Re:Where Lisp Fails: at Turning People into Fungible Cogs by krakensden on Sunday December 27, 2009 @01:45AM (#1016812)
Both statements are true- it was a hack to replace BitKeeper after the Tridgell disaster, and it was inspired by monotone, which he deemed irreparably slow.
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Re:Where Lisp Fails: at Turning People into Fungible Cogs by silentbicycle on Sunday December 27, 2009 @01:51AM (#1016821)
Yeah. He caught monotone at a bad time. Graydon had just gone on sabbatical...

Also, 'disaster' is a bit...harsh. As I heard, he just telnet'd and asked for "help".

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Re:Where Lisp Fails: at Turning People into Fungible Cogs by krakensden on Sunday December 27, 2009 @03:28PM (#1017547)
Well... it was a disaster in the sense that it caused a row and meant they had to switch versioning systems.
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