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Yep, and he made mucho dinero when they sold it to Yahoo. As far as I understood it, Lisp enabled them to implement features so fast that their would-be competitors couldn't keep pace.

and yet. pg has been cheerleading for lisp since 2002 or so, and almost nobody has followed in his footsteps. the reddit guys believed him, tried it, and wound up doing a complete rewrite in python.

https://redditblog.com/2005/12/05/on-lisp/

so i'd have to say that the prevailing evidence says, to me, that pg's advice pretty much doesn't work, in the average case.

Seems to me that the uptake has been picking up, in no small part to "Hacker News". Bear in mind that since Lisp programs get compiled to machine code, you might be using software written in it and not know it. And that's how it should be: high quality software should be small, fast, easy to install and the user shouldn't have to care what it's written in.

I have seen his essay on this and I am curious as to how relevant it is today, not so much because of languages, but because most languages have frameworks that will speed up a lot of the development time when used properly.

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