BIG successes of Lisp (was ...)

[Kenny Tilton]

Scott McKay wrote:

> <mike420 at ziplip.com> wrote in message
> news:BYIFD1LVHXB1ALLZLRH3P2BZOIIFHWLSJ4B4BRP3 at ziplip.com...
> 
>>In the context of LATEX, some Pythonista asked what the big
>>successes of Lisp were. I think there were at least three *big*
>>successes.
> 
> 
>>a. AFAIK Orbitz frequently has to be shut down for maintenance
>>(read "full garbage collection" - I'm just guessing: with
>>generational garbage collection, you still have to do full
>>garbage collection once in a while, and on a system like that
>>it can take a while)
>>
> 
> 
> Not true.  The servers do get restarted a couple of times
> a day to get new data loads, which are huge.

Because the data chompers are C++ (IIRC). :)

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