Re:A Common Lisp web startup test-case, two years after the ...
by downer on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @07:17PM
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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
Reddit: Stick with Lisp. (...)
http://notelab.infogami.com/startupschool2006