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Re:Why I still Lisp by kazinator on Monday February 01, 2021 @02:53AM (#25986527)
> This underlines the fact that Lisp projects can very easily end in spectacular disasters.

I've been following HN since 2014 and haven't seen any submission about such a thing.

The closest was some article or comment from someone who worked at Cycorp, about some horrors of the legacy code base.

Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21783828

"... the biggest mess I have ever seen by an order of magnitude"

:)

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Re:Why I still Lisp by mbrodersen on Monday February 01, 2021 @08:54PM (#25996627)
Not surprising since LISP isn’t used much.
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Re:Why I still Lisp by vindarel on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:44AM (#26000328)
Still, for some example companies: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies
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