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neilvtoday at 4:07 PM1 replyview on HN

ITA Software integrated with the mainframe network, and was acquired by Google.

An exec made a public quote that they couldn't have done it if they hadn't used Lisp.

(Today, the programming language landscape is somewhat more powerful. Rust got some metaprogramming features informed by Lisps, for example, and the team might've been able to slog through that.)


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zellyntoday at 5:40 PM

I was so sad when Google shelved their Sabre replacement. Could have run the whole industry.