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Re:Why is Common Lisp not the most popular programming langu... by farray on Thursday February 15, 2024 @02:12PM (#39387069)
ITA started doing everything in Lisp, but especially as the original coding founder left, started hiring people doing stuff in Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, shell, C++, PL/SQL, etc.

The core software was still Common Lisp, but lots of cruft got added, and Conway's Law kicked in mightily.

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