What's your favorite year end method?

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 07:07:55PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2008 6:23 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <ajswest at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:45:34PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Despite was has been said here, Lisp continues to be a major language.
> > > I've read a couple of articles, which I can't find now, that talked
> > > about Lisp making a comeback and about it being used at major
> > > corporations.
> >
> >
> > Yahoo used lisp to build their web store system.
> >
> > http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
> >
> > a nice little read.
> 
> I'm pretty sure the Orbitz system was built in Lisp, Common Lisp, as I
> recall (I think I read this in one of Paul Graham's essays, but could
> be wrong).

Does this mean we're all lobbying to keep scheme? 

I can tell you, having spent a couple hours working on the
report-system (which is quite a lot in scheme) it sure is fast and
easy to get stuff done. 

A
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