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I couldn't see a link to the reddit clone working - is there one? BTW: reddit was originally in lisp (they switched to python, for libraries and hiring). - th

by 10ren 17y ago

I couldn't see a link to the reddit clone working - is there one? BTW: reddit was originally in lisp (they switched to python, for libraries and hiring). - their blog: http://blog.reddit.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html http://blog.reddit.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html - Pycon Keynote question: http://brainsik.theory.org/.:./2009/why-reddit-uses-python http://brainsik.theory.org/.:./2009/why-reddit-uses-python (wow, bizarre directory name) - web.py author: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit I can't help but think that beginning in Lisp, and especially being familiar with lisp ideas, helped them a lot.

plinkplonk 17y ago
" couldn't see a link to the reddit clone working - is there one?" I think this was when lispers (at least the ones hanging out c.l.l ) got all offended and huffy that reddit shifted from lisp to python and someone wanted to "prove" that it was a wrong decision and so built this thing. Some folks on c.l.l have always been a bit ... extreme. I don't think it was ever a working system in the sense you mean it, just someone trying to show how obviously stupid the reddit folks were for selecting an inferior language like python (As compared to CL, the bestest language evah. c.l.l has its share of aging crusty fanatics. If anything they dominate there.
- whyenot 17y ago
  That's pretty much my recollection as well. Many lisp advocates at the time pointed to Reddit as an example of a commercial success with lisp, and the reaction after they switched to Python got nasty, especially on #lisp. Someone suggested the lisp community should build a "better one" than Reddit. As PG pointed out at the time of the switch "most of the complexity in the software is social, rather than technical." I don't think the author of Linkit really understood what he was saying. .
whyenot 17y ago
"Linkit" http://www.cl-user.net/asp/LNqT/sdataQ1SpRqcNQw5yDM==/sdataQumrnX== http://www.cl-user.net/asp/LNqT/sdataQ1SpRqcNQw5yDM==/sdataQ...
nickyp 17y ago
the little clone is part of the examples of the KPAX web application framework: http://kpax.wolf359.be/kpax/dynamic/reddit/ http://kpax.wolf359.be/kpax/dynamic/reddit/ More little KPAX live examples: http://kpax.wolf359.be/kpax/dynamic/welcome http://kpax.wolf359.be/kpax/dynamic/welcome

by 10ren 17y ago

plinkplonk 17y ago

" couldn't see a link to the reddit clone working - is there one?" I think this was when lispers (at least the ones hanging out c.l.l ) got all offended and huffy that reddit shifted from lisp to python and someone wanted to "prove" that it was a wrong decision and so built this thing. Some folks on c.l.l have always been a bit ... extreme. I don't think it was ever a working system in the sense you mean it, just someone trying to show how obviously stupid the reddit folks were for selecting an inferior language like python (As compared to CL, the bestest language evah. c.l.l has its share of aging crusty fanatics. If anything they dominate there.

whyenot 17y ago
That's pretty much my recollection as well. Many lisp advocates at the time pointed to Reddit as an example of a commercial success with lisp, and the reaction after they switched to Python got nasty, especially on #lisp. Someone suggested the lisp community should build a "better one" than Reddit. As PG pointed out at the time of the switch "most of the complexity in the software is social, rather than technical." I don't think the author of Linkit really understood what he was saying. .

whyenot 17y ago

"Linkit" http://www.cl-user.net/asp/LNqT/sdataQ1SpRqcNQw5yDM==/sdataQumrnX== http://www.cl-user.net/asp/LNqT/sdataQ1SpRqcNQw5yDM==/sdataQ...

nickyp 17y ago

the little clone is part of the examples of the KPAX web application framework: http://kpax.wolf359.be/kpax/dynamic/reddit/ http://kpax.wolf359.be/kpax/dynamic/reddit/ More little KPAX live examples: http://kpax.wolf359.be/kpax/dynamic/welcome http://kpax.wolf359.be/kpax/dynamic/welcome