A Common Lisp web startup test-case, two years after the Reddit switch

Re:A Common Lisp web startup test-case, two years after the ... by downer on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @10:03PM (#91001)

PG on why Reddit switched:

"Incidentally, the last straw, I've been told, was some bug in CMUCL threads that kept making the system crash."

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/574d19d5e7...

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Re:A Common Lisp web startup test-case, two years after the ... by lucindo on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @10:56AM (#91167)

Q: What would you do differently if you could do it all over again?

Reddit: Stick with Lisp. (...)

http://notelab.infogami.com/startupschool2006

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Re:A Common Lisp web startup test-case, two years after the ... by downer on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @07:17PM (#91333)

That sounds like something to score brownie points.

In reality, with their millions, there's nothing stopping them from re-Lisping it. (Not even time considerations -- when they were in negotiations to be acquired, they didn't do any development for months [1]. If you can get away with spending that much time not developing before you have money, you can get away with doing a rewrite after money is no longer a concern.)

[1] "We must have stopped doing real work for six months." -- http://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget

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