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Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by rrradical on Monday October 27, 2014 @01:28PM (#8516829)
I upvoted just because it's a neat, historical document that I missed the first time around. I have no particular stake in Lisp or Python.
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Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by bhhaskin on Monday October 27, 2014 @01:49PM (#8516980)
Yep, I knew that Reddit was originally written in Lisp and made the change to Python at some point. It is neat to learn exactly why and how.
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Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by general_failure on Monday October 27, 2014 @08:25PM (#8518922)
What did you learn? That lisp is not maintainable? The article just glosses over the details.
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