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RethinkDB is switching over to Lisp
- alrex021 17y agoAs we’re preparing to open source our Lisp code base, I’m happy to kick off the effort by listing the last few lines of the source code in this post: )))))))) ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) ))))))))))) ))) ) Thats just classic.
- jgrahamc 17y agoNo, it's not. It's lame. If you are going to do an April Fools joke make an effort. That was done without thinking at all.
- apgwoz 17y agoThe thing that sort of pisses me off about this too, is that Slava is a proponent of Common Lisp (weblocks, cl-cont, various essays). Plus, there's no reason that Common Lisp couldn't be used for a high end database product--AllegroGraph is written in Lisp.
- lenni 17y agoThey nearly got me... I didn't click until the parapgraph before the parenthesis joke.
- kiba 17y agoApril fool?
- PG-13 17y agoThis day always makes me respect The Onion a whole lot more. It takes a lot of talent to what they do as well as they do it.
- dpapathanasiou 17y agoBefore I'd read the article, I thought it was plausible, since one of the rethink guys also runs defmacro.org. With the iPad-alooza in the air, a better joke would have been that they're switching all their dev work to the iPad/iPhone SDK.
- lsb 17y agoYou don't need a low-level language like C for the query planner and SQL parser. Linspire is doing OS development in Haskell http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1506 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1506 and SQLite, with it's 45MLoC of test code for its 67 KLoC of source code, tests a lot of memory allocation bugs. http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html The bigger question is, even though these guys are selling a software package that's probably never going open-source, how long until we use compiled high-level-languages instead of C, just like C replaced assembler?
- lurkerperpetual 17y agoLinspire has stopped existing for quite some time now.
- shin_lao 17y agoAm I the only one to find April fools boring?
- runevault 17y agoFor the most part I agree, few take the effort to do something actually funny/impressive. So far the only ones I've seen this year that impressed me are Google Annotation Galery, Youtube, xkcd, and fourwalls from attalasoft
- Flow 17y agoEvery 1st of April, the net goes completely shit. :(
- Flow 17y agoslava.respect--;