In over 30 years, I have only been involved in one commercial project that used lisp.
At 05:42 PM 10/24/2004, Ralph Johnson wrote:
Paul Graham built a system and a company, and sold the company to Yahoo. Yahoo took it over and was successful with it, but eventually rewrote it all in Java. This is a typical story. Why do people take successful systems in Lisp (or Smalltalk, or ...) and rewrite them in much more boring and less powerful languages? We need to understand this if we want to make the world safe for powerful languages.
Mark Grand (404)925-8265
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