which is another article that has been mentioned many times here on hn.
Viaweb was later bought by Yahoo for 40 million, iirc, and became Yahoo Stores /
Shopping.
such questions as yours have come up many times before in the past on hn.
so it looks like you might not have read them. you could have used the search function at the bottom of the main hn page.
>More importantly, give me one example where Lisp was used and didn't get rewritten in another language later?", I hear no concrete example given by the Lispers.
how is this point more important? it may be, but explain why. and again, did you search enough, before asking?
(and the argument here is about the power of the language, not about the business issues (like hiring) surrounding it.)
I don't think it has to be more important.
an app getting rewritten in another language could be (and often is) due to non-technical reasons, such as management not understanding the power of lisp, or relative shortage of lisp programmers. the same kind of things happen with clojure, ocaml, etc.
maybe you didn't look enough, even on hn, let alone outside it. because, as just one example,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software
has been mentioned, maybe multiple times before, here on HN, in reply to questions such as yours.
(it was sold to Google for 700 million a few years later, according to the above page.)
another example is by the founder of the very site that we are talking on: hn. it was founded by PG, who also co-founded Viaweb. See
https://paulgraham.com/avg.html
which is another article that has been mentioned many times here on hn.
Viaweb was later bought by Yahoo for 40 million, iirc, and became Yahoo Stores / Shopping.
such questions as yours have come up many times before in the past on hn.
so it looks like you might not have read them. you could have used the search function at the bottom of the main hn page.
>More importantly, give me one example where Lisp was used and didn't get rewritten in another language later?", I hear no concrete example given by the Lispers.
how is this point more important? it may be, but explain why. and again, did you search enough, before asking?
(and the argument here is about the power of the language, not about the business issues (like hiring) surrounding it.)
I don't think it has to be more important.
an app getting rewritten in another language could be (and often is) due to non-technical reasons, such as management not understanding the power of lisp, or relative shortage of lisp programmers. the same kind of things happen with clojure, ocaml, etc.