PG on why Reddit switched:
"Incidentally, the last straw, I've been told, was some bug in CMUCL threads that kept making the system crash."
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/574d19d5e7...
"Incidentally, the last straw, I've been told, was some bug in CMUCL threads that kept making the system crash."
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/574d19d5e7...
Reddit: Stick with Lisp. (...)
In reality, with their millions, there's nothing stopping them from re-Lisping it. (Not even time considerations -- when they were in negotiations to be acquired, they didn't do any development for months [1]. If you can get away with spending that much time not developing before you have money, you can get away with doing a rewrite after money is no longer a concern.)
[1] "We must have stopped doing real work for six months." -- http://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget