I don't think it is sad, or even true for that matter. It is just the talk of someone who treats a programming language as a religion. Why would Yahoo want to

I don't think it is sad, or even true for that matter. It is just the talk of someone who treats a programming language as a religion. Why would Yahoo want to keep this one property written in Lisp around while the proficiencies within the company (and the general talent pool outside the company) did not include Lisp? It has nothing to do with being "afraid" of Lisp, it simply didn't make sense to have one random Lisp property. I am pretty certain if Google made this acquisition, the site would be rewritten too. edit: typo