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by relics443 2951 days ago
Curious about the Yahoo Store debacle that was mentioned a few times.
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phlakaton 2951 days ago
See: http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...
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auvi 2951 days ago
I am also curious as I thought Yahoo! Store was written in Common Lisp as it was acquired from Viaweb.
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FractalLP 2951 days ago
I think they rewrote in C++ after buying viaweb. I could be wrong though.
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jlg23 2950 days ago
Yes, IIRC that is mentioned in PG's blog post: Beating the Averages.
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