On: Running Lisp in Production (2015)

[andi999]

I am not doubting that Lisp is a language with which can be used to write succesful commercial applications. I am questioning the claim that it is vastly more productive for commercial applications. Of course it is not really possible to say how somebody else in a different language would have needed, so maybe a compromise would be to see some 'magical'lisp code examples.

[srean → andi999]

ITA software would definitely be worth looking at, but you would need to get hired by the right team.

More details here http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html you can also glean more information by searching over older discussions about ITA on HN.

[andi999 → srean]

This is really interesting. I am amazed by the circumvention of the GC for large data; this thought would have never occured to me.