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By bloid
via martincmartin.com
Published: Mar 17 2008 / 09:42
Two years ago I landed a job at ITA Software, which Paul Graham called one of the “ten or twenty places where hackers most want to work,” along with Google. And one of the interesting things about ITA is that the majority of their software is written in Lisp.
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dzonelurker replied ago:
"It’s not a functional language, it’s a multi-paradigm language. Our code is mostly imperative, we use lots of state and assignments, and we only use recursion rarely, where it’s clearly better than iteration."
Hear hear!
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