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by Phrodo_00 1418 days ago
Very early versions, but they were already using python before you could create your own subreddits, for example (which is around the time when it started becoming more mainstream)
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KMnO4 1418 days ago
IIRC, they were able to fully rewrite it in Python in a weekend. I guess that shows the (small) scale of what it was at that point.
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foobarian 1417 days ago
Why did they need to rewrite it in Python? Isn't lisp more powerful, meaning it would have been easier to create and experiment with more features?
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seba_dos1 1417 days ago
I guess they realized that they would like to start hiring.
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