BIG successes of Lisp (was ...)

[Kenny Tilton]

Peter Seibel wrote:
> gat at jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat) writes:
> 
> 
>>In article <7xvfqs66v6.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin
>><http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
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>>>The Yahoo Store software was written by some small company
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>>Viaweb
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>>>that sold the business to some other company
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>>Yahoo (obviously).
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>>>that didn't want to develop in Lisp, I thought.
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>>That's right.  Yahoo ultimately reimplemented Yahoo Store in C++.
> 
> 
> Of course to do so, they had to--according to Paul Graham--implement a
> Lisp interpreter in C++! 

I hope he made another $40m off them in consulting fees helping them 
with the port. :)

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