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Other people tried (and succeeded). Like Sabre (seems to be c++, but most is actually SQL it seems), or Amadeus. Well, what I mean: can you elaborate a bit mor
by andi999 6y ago
Other people tried (and succeeded). Like Sabre (seems to be c++, but most is actually SQL it seems), or Amadeus.
Well, what I mean: can you elaborate a bit more?
- pge 6y agoThe reference is to ITA Software who wrote their code in lisp. The company was acquired by google. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software
- andi999 6y agoI am not doubting that Lisp is a language with which can be used to write succesful commercial applications. I am questioning the claim that it is vastly more productive for commercial applications. Of course it is not really possible to say how somebody else in a different language would have needed, so maybe a compromise would be to see some 'magical'lisp code examples.
- srean 6y agoITA software would definitely be worth looking at, but you would need to get hired by the right team. More details here http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html you can also glean more information by searching over older discussions about ITA on HN.
- andi999 6y agoThis is really interesting. I am amazed by the circumvention of the GC for large data; this thought would have never occured to me.
- rbanffy 6y agoIf it runs on C++ now, it's been rewritten. Sabre predates C by many, many years and it almost predates Bjarne Stroustrup himself. I suspect a lot of it got moved to IBM assembly when they moved to S/360 mainframes in the early 70's. TPF is a descendant of that project.