I doubt crashing had anything to do with lisp -- the site crashes hard at least once every week. It was all about logistics. YC had two competing companies. Th

I doubt crashing had anything to do with lisp -- the site crashes hard at least once every week. It was all about logistics. YC had two competing companies. They pushed them together. The lisp team could get up to speed on python faster than the python team could on common lisp.