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 More options Dec 8 2005, 10:00 pm
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From: "paulgraham" <p...@bugbear.com>
Date: 8 Dec 2005 19:00:22 -0800
Local: Thurs, Dec 8 2005 10:00 pm
Subject: Re: Reddit rewritten in Python
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Adam Connor wrote:
> I might add... if the folks in a PG-associated startup aren't convinced
> to stick with Lisp, it is going to make other folks wonder why they
> should bother even considering it. So, it's very unfortunate.

I told them it was fine with me if they wanted to rewrite the thing in
Python.
It's not as if the program is some hugely sophisticated collection of
macros and continuations.  Most of the complexity in the software is
social, rather than technical.  Python is perfectly adequate for it.

Incidentally, the last straw, I've been told, was some bug in CMUCL
threads that kept making the system crash.


 
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