Reddit broke - should have remained on Lisp?

[olsongt at verizon.net]

Kay Schluehr wrote:
>
> Please, since this is a Python+Lisp cross-thread and you seem to have
> background info: can you explain why Lisp hackers have turned
> themselves into Python newbies for Reddit impl. and finally complain
> about the language switch? What was cause for their decision to use
> Python in the first place?

Basically, it was the same complaint everyone else has about common
lisp.  It's an awesome language, but there are no reliable standard
crossplatform (and free) libraries for threading and sockets.  They
were using FreeBSD as a server, and (trying to) use powerbooks as a dev
platform, and that seriously restricted viable CL implemenations.

http://redditblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/night-of-living-python.html
http://redditblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html