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Lisp @ Google: Killed in 2001 Reborn in 2008

• jimm 18y ago
  Quite a few of the early comments are mentioning Clojure. Since it runs on the JVM, that might make more sense than CL for Google (whose main languages are Java and Python, IIRC).
  • snprbob86 18y ago
    Java, Python, and C++
• vsiva68 18y ago
  The fact that someone in Google wrote an application in lisp does not mean that lisp is now an approved language at Google. Wonder why the author came to such a conclusion.
  • fallentimes 18y ago
    Regardless, PG has a big smile on his face right now :).
• redorb 18y ago
  I don't understand the conversation - I hope it isn't real, how can someone say "no" so immediatley - unless they are that uber smart, that they know the ins and outs of every language.
  • bd 18y ago
    From the conversation buildup it looks like these requests (use Smalltalk, Lisp) were common at Google, thus could be responded to with "precomputed" no (i.e. it was not the first time VP had to ponder the request).