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PG on why Reddit switched: "Incidentally, the last straw, I've been told, was some bug in CMUCL threads that kept making the system crash." http://groups.goog

• lucindo 19y ago
  Q: What would you do differently if you could do it all over again? Reddit: Stick with Lisp. (...) http://notelab.infogami.com/startupschool2006 http://notelab.infogami.com/startupschool2006
  • downer 19y ago
    That sounds like something to score brownie points. In reality, with their millions, there's nothing stopping them from re-Lisping it. (Not even time considerations -- when they were in negotiations to be acquired, they didn't do any development for months [1]. If you can get away with spending that much time not developing before you have money, you can get away with doing a rewrite after money is no longer a concern.) [1] "We must have stopped doing real work for six months." -- http://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget http://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget