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ITA Common Lisp project, but yeah. Google let it rapidly deteriorate after they purchased it.
by caslon 5y ago
ITA Common Lisp project, but yeah. Google let it rapidly deteriorate after they purchased it.
- auvi 5y agoFor a while ITA was (probably is) a showcase of Common Lisp in production. But I think these days Grammarly is the one.
- danielam 5y agoThe choice of Common Lisp is less flattering than one might hope because it was largely the result of familiarity (Carl de Marcken's doctoral thesis was in computational linguistics and he was most comfortable using Lisp). When I asked him (c. 2007) whether he would have chosen Common Lisp again, he said that he wouldn't have and that he would have chosen Java instead. I don't recall any mention of technical reasons during that exchange (maybe static analysis?), but I do vaguely recall hiring considerations. (Also, while much of the "business logic" was written in Lisp, a good chunk of low-level stuff was written in C++.)
- e40 5y ago> Google let it rapidly deteriorate after they purchased it. Is that true? They have a team of people working on SBCL and at ELS a few years after the purchase by Google they were talking about SBCL work to support the app.