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Re:IBM introduces z15 mainframe by tyingq on Sunday September 15, 2019 @09:33AM (#20977118)
That's the shopping engine, which was successful, but only a small subset of what a TPF reservation system does...albeit one of the more complex pieces.

ITA did build the full thing, but only Cape Air used it. The "full thing" being shopping, schedules, inventory, booking, cancel, change, check-in, etc.

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Re:IBM introduces z15 mainframe by bogomipz on Sunday September 15, 2019 @12:45PM (#20978093)
Oh interesting so ITA is really just a retail front-end for TPF then? I guess I was misinformed about it as well.
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Re:IBM introduces z15 mainframe by tyingq on Sunday September 15, 2019 @01:04PM (#20978196)
The customers shop using ITA. The ITA shopping engine gets schedules, inventory and updates inventory from/to the backend (often TPF).

The shopping engine itself isn't trivial. ITA has the best shopping engine available.

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Re:IBM introduces z15 mainframe by mruts on Sunday September 15, 2019 @12:50PM (#20978129)
I was under the impression that ITA used exclusively Common Lisp to inplement their software. I could be wrong, though.
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Re:IBM introduces z15 mainframe by lispm on Sunday September 15, 2019 @03:25PM (#20979007)
Other parts were written other languages. ITA also used languages like C++ (reported to be roughly 50% of the line count for QPX) and Java (for RES).
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