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ITA for a long time was the "poster boy" exemplar case whenever anyone asked whether Lisp was being used for anything big in the real world. I worked for Orbit
by syngrog66 5y ago
ITA for a long time was the "poster boy" exemplar case whenever anyone asked whether Lisp was being used for anything big in the real world.
I worked for Orbitz during the era when ITA was still independent, and we used their flight search software in our backend. ("QPX" might have been its product name, that used Lisp, but been a while.)
- jeffbee 5y agoITA should instead be the poster child of clueless computer science stunts that actually are not that helpful. The fact that ITA can find and suggest that you could do this trip at a higher price but with a 24-hour layover in Charlotte, or with a 48-hour layover in Charlotte, or with a 96-hour layover in Charlotte, ... Someone with good taste should have stopped these crazed graph theorists before they reached the keyboard.