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"you want a clone for eBay/Facebook/Amazon? You realize they have teams of many thousands of people working on code bases over 15 years old right? And you think
by craigsmansion 9y ago
"you want a clone for eBay/Facebook/Amazon? You realize they have teams of many thousands of people working on code bases over 15 years old right? And you think a single person, me, is going to be able to replicate that in 3 months?"
"You can use Lisp if you want to."
"...I'll have the POC on your desk by next week."
- user5994461 9y agoAnd it will take hundreds of people over years to go from the POC to an equivalent product.
- HumanDrivenDev 9y agoBecause they'll do a costly re-write in python? :P
- user5994461 9y agoBecause it took hundreds of good developers to find one who was experienced and was willing to work in lisp. /s
- baby 9y ago)))))))