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I hope not and I doubt that would happen. One of ITA's biggest assets is their employees. Those employees are there in large part because they get to use lisp

by paddy_m 17y ago

I hope not and I doubt that would happen. One of ITA's biggest assets is their employees. Those employees are there in large part because they get to use lisp on the job. Also ITA deals with incredibly complex problems and has very complex software, rewriting it in other languages would be a serious undertaking.

runevault 17y ago
While I'm not sure I buy the GP/GGP (can't see from the post window >_<) point that Google NEEDS a Lisp/CL team, I have a hard time imagining they would buy ITA for such a large sum of money only to piss off all the employees, and at the same time basically throwing away the tech if they wanted to rewrite it away from CL. The money is simply too much for doing that to make sense. Unless they feel ITA's market position alone is worth that much cash, but I find that hard to believe. edit: Bah wasn't in the same exact thread line but was mentioned, excuse the dumb on the grandparent/Great Grand Parent part.