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by rabidgnat 5900 days ago
"What happens to Lisp if Google buys ITA Software?"

Over the years, subsystems will get converted one-by-one to C++/Python/Java, and programmers will get converted one-by-one to C++/Python/Java programmers. Google would have a lot of good arguments for playing by the rules - they would be able to leverage scalable computing and storage at scales ITA could only imagine, and the rest will fall into place