Lisp @ Google: Killed in 2001 Reborn in 2008(ileriseviye.org)

25 pointsby raju18 anni fa6 comments

Lisp @ Google: Killed in 2001 Reborn in 2008

http://ileriseviye.org/blog/?p=1221

3 comments

The fact that someone in Google wrote an application in lisp does not mean that lisp is now an approved language at Google. Wonder why the author came to such a conclusion.

fallentimes18 anni fa

Regardless, PG has a big smile on his face right now :).

jimm18 anni fa

Quite a few of the early comments are mentioning Clojure. Since it runs on the JVM, that might make more sense than CL for Google (whose main languages are Java and Python, IIRC).

snprbob8618 anni fa

Java, Python, and C++

redorb18 anni fa

I don't understand the conversation - I hope it isn't real, how can someone say "no" so immediatley - unless they are that uber smart, that they know the ins and outs of every language.

bd18 anni fa

From the conversation buildup it looks like these requests (use Smalltalk, Lisp) were common at Google, thus could be responded to with "precomputed" no (i.e. it was not the first time VP had to ponder the request).