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RethinkDB is switching over to Lisp

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As we’re preparing to open source our Lisp code base, I’m happy to kick off the effort by listing the last few lines of the source code in this post:

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Thats just classic.

No, it's not. It's lame. If you are going to do an April Fools joke make an effort. That was done without thinking at all.

The thing that sort of pisses me off about this too, is that Slava is a proponent of Common Lisp (weblocks, cl-cont, various essays). Plus, there's no reason that Common Lisp couldn't be used for a high end database product--AllegroGraph is written in Lisp.

It's a form of tough love. I only mock things (and people) I care about. Just ask my girlfriend. Or my cofounder.

Fair enough!

Am I the only one to find April fools boring?

For the most part I agree, few take the effort to do something actually funny/impressive.

So far the only ones I've seen this year that impressed me are Google Annotation Galery, Youtube, xkcd, and fourwalls from attalasoft

Every 1st of April, the net goes completely shit. :(

You don't need a low-level language like C for the query planner and SQL parser.

Linspire is doing OS development in Haskell http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1506 and SQLite, with it's 45MLoC of test code for its 67 KLoC of source code, tests a lot of memory allocation bugs. http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

The bigger question is, even though these guys are selling a software package that's probably never going open-source, how long until we use compiled high-level-languages instead of C, just like C replaced assembler?

Linspire has stopped existing for quite some time now.

Before I'd read the article, I thought it was plausible, since one of the rethink guys also runs defmacro.org.

With the iPad-alooza in the air, a better joke would have been that they're switching all their dev work to the iPad/iPhone SDK.

They nearly got me... I didn't click until the parapgraph before the parenthesis joke.

slava.respect--;

This day always makes me respect The Onion a whole lot more. It takes a lot of talent to what they do as well as they do it.

April fool?

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