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rrradical on Oct 27, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rewriting Reddit (2005)

I upvoted just because it's a neat, historical document that I missed the first time around. I have no particular stake in Lisp or Python.

bhhaskin on Oct 27, 2014 [–]

Yep, I knew that Reddit was originally written in Lisp and made the change to Python at some point. It is neat to learn exactly why and how.

general_failure on Oct 28, 2014 | [–]

What did you learn? That lisp is not maintainable? The article just glosses over the details.

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