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Wow! I never knew that Amazon was a Lisp company. I'd like to know more about their infrastructure setup with Lisp and C.
by metaobject 15y ago
Wow! I never knew that Amazon was a Lisp company. I'd like to know more about their infrastructure setup with Lisp and C.
- lelele 15y agoI don't have any info besides Yeggie saying it.
- zak_mc_kracken 15y agoI read him religiously but I don't remember him even coming close to making such a claim and searching for "yegge amazon lisp" doesn't turn up anything.
- srparish 15y agohttps://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel
- cgrubb 15y agoYegge wrote that in "Tour de Babel". I don't think it is really true tho. When I started in 1997 (before Yegge) there was lots of C and Perl but no Lisp, at least not in the central repo. There were restrictions on Perl. The DBAs wouldn't let us use it to insert data in the database. Shel didn't care much for Perl. He might have warmed to it a little bit when he discovered it supported closures; I remember him sending a msg to the software alias about it. Eric Benson had been a principal at Lucid, though I didn't know it at the time. Once he gave a class to the perlhackers on how to write code. The advice, as I recall, was to put "use strict;" at the top of our scripts and to start every function by shifting all the arguments into local variables. Eric Benson wrote the initial version of the "customer who bought this also bought..." code, and he used Perl, not Lisp. I'm sure he thought about the problem in Lisp terms, tho. http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel