Rewriting Reddit (2005)

Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by gprasant on Monday October 27, 2014 @02:22PM (#8517172)

They say hell hath no fury like a lisp fan scorned. I wonder if they hadn't been acquired, would they have still used Lisp ?

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Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by keysersosa on Monday October 27, 2014 @03:30PM (#8517635)

We switched to python about 4 months into the startup and a full year before getting acquired.

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Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by raldi on Monday October 27, 2014 @04:59PM (#8518145)

And some people still haven't forgiven you.

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Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by zoomerang on Monday October 27, 2014 @08:06PM (#8518876)

I can remember this switch back in the day, but for some reason my memory has failed me. I could have sworn the original was in Haskell, not Lisp.

Selective memory I guess.

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Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by bensw on Monday October 27, 2014 @02:31PM (#8517223)

This blog post refers to a rewrite that happened before the Condé Nast acquisition.

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Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by alexis on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @08:16AM (#8520519)

Great post on that when Steve made the switch. http://www.redditblog.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html

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