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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 28, 2007, 3:52 AM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #20

Xichekolas wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paul Graham is so good, the parenthesis match themselves. Paul Graham is so good, it's hard to defun him.

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Post by ptn » Fri, Sep 28, 2007, 5:27 AM UTC

henning wrote: post #11

johnrob wrote: post #8

Time to rewrite the site in Blub?

Paul Graham is so good, Arc is Blub for him. Paul Graham is so good, he does just simply walk into Mordor. And then he checks into a hotel.

Post by mkull » Fri, Sep 28, 2007, 5:59 AM UTC

henning wrote: post #11

johnrob wrote: post #8

Time to rewrite the site in Blub?

Paul Graham is so good, Arc is Blub for him. Paul Graham is so good, he does just simply walk into Mordor. And then he checks into a hotel.

Post by Kaizyn » Fri, Sep 28, 2007, 6:12 AM UTC

shadowplay wrote: post #26

pg wrote: post #15

Mzscheme is core dumping. We may have discovered some new bug. Rtm is investigating.

This seems to be a recurring theme with Lisp implementations. Reddit switched from CMUCL to Python (threading); Vendetta Online switched from SBCL to Erlang (GC/memory leaks). Other people have hit major snags e.g. with Haskell/GHC runtime bugs (Wager Labs; switched to Erlang). Use a massively complex runtime, hit bugs that can't be fixed (in a start-up timeframe, anyhow)?

Post by shadowplay » Fri, Sep 28, 2007, 7:03 AM UTC

Kaizyn wrote: post #27

shadowplay wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems to be a recurring theme with Lisp implementations. Reddit switched from CMUCL to Python (threading); Vendetta Online switched from SBCL to Erlang (GC/memory leaks). Other people have hit major snags e.g. with Haskell/GHC runtime bugs (Wager Labs; switched to Erlang). Use a massively complex runtime, hit bugs that can't be fixed (in a start-up timeframe, anyhow)?

If more people used LISP runtime systems, then the bugs would be found more readily. Thus leading to fewer defections from LISP to Blubs.