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Re:Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase by auvi on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @03:41PM (#12737963)
If you don't mind sharing, does ITA/Google Flights still use Common Lisp for the backend?
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Re:Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase by breakds on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @07:37PM (#12739709)
Yes. The core of the backend is still in Common Lisp (and C++). Many ITA hackers are still contributing to the Common Lisp community :)
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Re:Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase by phillco on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @12:39AM (#12741108)
Interesting -- didn't Google use to be super strict on the languages/runtimes they use in production? Did they make an exception for ITA?
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Re:Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase by dmbaggett on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @04:01PM (#12738122)
I don't actually know. But porting it would be a huge undertaking.
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Re:Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase by jsnell on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @04:39PM (#12738449)
It does.
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