3 ms·
I'm surprised that no mention was made of the big rewrite. A lot of us early users were lisp/Graham followers and intrigued by the fact that the site was writte
by joncp 12y ago
I'm surprised that no mention was made of the big rewrite. A lot of us early users were lisp/Graham followers and intrigued by the fact that the site was written in lisp. I seem to recall the rewrite being a big deal.
- alexis 12y agoIt was big for the LISP community. Steve handled it really well. Hell hath no fury like a LISPer scorned, but in the grand scheme of things... http://www.redditblog.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html http://www.redditblog.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html
- keysersosa 12y agoI too remember it being pretty harrowing at the time (if only because it felt like we were alienating [har] such a large chunk of our community), but in fairness it happened barely 6 months in. It all happened in a couple of weeks of quick work and I seem to recall we even recycled the db schema. We did a post-acquisition python-to-python rewrite -- clean out the cobwebs, switch frameworks, and redo the database schema -- which was much harder, longer, and more painful to deploy. Though in that case it was one of those drastic changes whose primary side effect was that no none notices a thing.