Re: Amazon used lisp & C exclusively?

Alok wrote:

http://www.cabochon.com/~stevey/blog-rants/tour-de-babel.html

Quoting the article, they are using more languages:

| C, C++, Lisp, Java, Perl, (all languages we use at Amazon),

And looks like they don't use Lisp very much today, because they have a
large C++ code base:

| We have 50 million lines of C++ code.

| and was expanding at 8 million lines a quarter

and:

| I think there may still be more Lisp hackers, per capita, in CS Apps
| than in any other group at Amazon. Not that they get to use it much

And they rewrote an Emacs Lisp solution in JSP (Java):

| they missed Mailman and Emacs, and how Arizona
| (the JSP replacement we'd spent years developing)
| still just wasn't doing it for them.

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