Rewriting Reddit (2005)

Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by coldtea on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @08:27AM (#8520564)

>The Lisp newsgroup, comp.lang.lisp, was upset about the switch that they’re currently planning to write a competitor to reddit in Lisp, to show how right they are or something.

That must have ended as a huge success, because as we all know the important thing behind a website is the backend language...

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Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by Perceval on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @12:23PM (#8521776)

Isn't Hacker News written in Lisp?

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Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by dllthomas on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @12:26PM (#8521790)

I think you miss the point of the parent comment, which is that backend language is an implementation detail and generally shouldn't matter to users. You can disagree with that point, it just is a very different point than anything addressed by noting that HN has a Lisp backend.

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