Re:Implementing a bignum calculator – Rob Pike [video]
by lispm on Saturday December 20, 2014 @05:30PM
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http://www.ptc.com/product/creo/elements
largely written in a few million lines of Lisp...
Graham later made Arc, the language in which HN is written. To the best of my knowledge Arc's only major project is in fact Hacker News.
So, essentially, yes, you're correct.