BIG successes of Lisp

[Joe Marshall]

mike420 at ziplip.com writes:

> Ivan Toshkov wrote:
>
>> 
>> Besides, when I read the description of orbiz, I was with the
>> impression, that they prealocated the memory for just that reason: to
>> remove the need for garbage collection.
>
> An why would anyone do something this gross to optimize something
> that is *not* a real bottleneck? Think when you read. The fact is,
> they still had close their whole web site for maintenance every 
> once in a while (I never said if it was a supercomputer cluser or
> a DOS machine) I added "AFAIK" qualifier because it *may*
> be an old and already resolved issue.
>
> Edi Weitz and Joe Marshall, you may stop kissing ass now. You
> need brains to work for ITA, not lips.

I'm well aware of the necessary qualifications for working at ITA.  
I worked there.  Any shutdown at Orbitz was (and is) unrelated to
garbage collection.