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I don't even code in Lisp, but I knew the Google Flights engine would come up, because it seems to be just about the only "serious" application ever written in

I don't even code in Lisp, but I knew the Google Flights engine would come up, because it seems to be just about the only "serious" application ever written in Lisp. And it wasn't built by Google, but their acquisition ITA, which hails from Boston and MIT's Scheme reality distortion field. (And even MIT has stopped teaching SICP in Scheme...)

lisper 10y ago
Emacs, ViaWeb, Macsyma, the DS1 Remote Agent, much of the autonomous navigation software for the Mars Rover before the Pathfinder mission... And I have built a number of small-scale web applications in Common Lisp. I'm running one of them in production right now.
- jodrellblank 10y ago
  And Yahoo! paid 49 million dollars of stock to throw the LISP in the trash and use something else instead. It wasn't even worth them spending 1 million dollars - 2% of that price - on training people. http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=31402 http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=s...
  - lisper 10y ago
    Right. And that decision was surely one of the reasons Yahoo is the runaway success it is today.
gaius 10y ago
Are AutoDesk still using it?