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by tacon 206 days ago
Isn't that part of Paul Graham's startup lore? They were running lisp web servers for their ecommerce store and while a customer was on the phone with an issue, they would patch the server live and ask the customer to reload. Customers would hang up convinced it was their personal glitch.
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The tool uses a Forth-like language with immutable data structures and persistent memory snapshots. It also uses Clojure style meta-data and compile-time meta-programming. I have no luck convincing people that a language without curly brackets is useful.