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		papersmith on May 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft eyeing Yahoo (buyout) deal! I think Yahoo rewrote Viaweb in C++. The only thing that's still remotely Lispy about it is that they kept RTML.

pg on May 4, 2007 [–]

That's pretty Lispy, because RTML is stored on disk as s-expressions. So rewriting Viaweb in C++ literally meant writing a Lisp interpreter.

jey on May 5, 2007 | [–]

Wow, someone should give Yahoo an award for "Most literal application of Greenspun's Tenth Rule."

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