BIG successes of Lisp (was ...)

[Scott McKay]

<mike420 at ziplip.com> wrote in message
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> 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.