[PRL] Interesting article in LtU

John Clements clements at brinckerhoff.org
Fri Dec 2 14:18:45 EST 2005


On Dec 2, 2005, at 11:11 AM, Doug Orleans wrote:

> Mitchell Wand writes:
>>     * An interview
>>       <http://www.davidnewberger.com/wp/2005/11/28/if-you-havent- 
>> reddit-you-are-missing-out/>
>>       about reddit <http://reddit.com/> which includes the ultimate
>>       question: *Why Lisp?*
>>
>> Anybody want to see if they can use reddit's Lispiness either for  
>> good
>> or for evil?
>
> For what it's worth, Reddit is one of the startups from Paul Graham's
> summer startup program.  So they may have picked Lisp just to impress
> him.

I hate to say this, but I broke it (server internal error) in 5  
minutes.  Of course, on the web I don't care about errors; I'll just  
try again if I need the information.  A nod to Martin Rinard's  
failure-oblivious computing?

John

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