[jjwiseman]

A comment by Steve Huffman on my blog[1], from back when they switched away to Python:

  I didn't say the are *no* shoulders to stand on. There are
  just fewer.

  Without a doubt, Edi Weitz single-handedly made reddit
  possible. He's an army-of-one producing good Lisp
  libraries. The issues that made it really hard to stick
  with Lisp weren't particularily Lispy.

  The biggest trouble that plagued us was that we could never
  quite get Lisp reddit stable enough to sleep at night.
  There were weird threading issues that would bring the site
  to its knees a couple times a day and required constant
  monitoring.

Another comment, from Paul Graham:

  > One can argue that they betrayed the worth of a
  > philosophy merely for cheap money.

  Ye gods, enough with the conspiracy theories already. Y
  Combinator didn't know Reddit was going to use Lisp when
  we funded them. And the reason they switched (or at least,
  the last straw) was all too mundane: some thread bug in
  CMUCL that made the site keep crashing.

1. http://lemonodor.com/archives/001301.html