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Because it's a language in which you can be incredibly productive. The only downside is speed of execution, but optimisations help. Why I think Google needs on
by zandorg 17y ago
Because it's a language in which you can be incredibly productive. The only downside is speed of execution, but optimisations help.
Why I think Google needs one? Because they don't have one, and considering their financial resources, they can afford it, and because ITA will pay for itself.
- pavs 17y ago1 billion dollars for a developer team who uses certain language? Wouldn't it be cheaper just to hire the team?
- tlack 17y agoDo you think they'll also spend top dollar to "buy teams" that are good at other languages? Kind of a ridiculous concept - surely if the gains of Lisp were actual, Google would just pay their employees to learn and use Lisp.
- zandorg 17y ago(also answer to pavs) Well, when Google acquired ReMail, everyone here said "It's a talent acquisition". So why should this be any different - $1b for the world's best Lisp hackers?
- philwelch 17y agoTalent acquisitions are usually in the millions, not the billions. If you're paying a billion dollars, you want to get more than talent out of the deal. There are probably cheaper ways for Google to get excellent Lispers.
- snth 17y agoI think they probably have a couple people that know Lisp... Peter Norvig probably knows some :)
- billjings 17y agoAirline flight scheduling and pricing is harder than lisp.