> My friends over at reddit.com rewrote their site from Lisp to Python in the past week. It was pretty much done after one weekend.
It should probably be noted that this is from 2005.
> The Lisp newsgroup, comp.lang.lisp, was upset about the switch that they’re currently planning to write a competitor to reddit in Lisp, to show how right they are or something.
Wow, reading the newsgroup discussion was fascinating...and didn't reflect well at all on LIsp or its adherents, even though they were acting in the best spirit of hackers.
It should probably be noted that this is from 2005.
> The Lisp newsgroup, comp.lang.lisp, was upset about the switch that they’re currently planning to write a competitor to reddit in Lisp, to show how right they are or something.
Here's what became of that: http://www.cl-user.net/asp/new