BIG successes of Lisp (was ...)

[Terry Reedy]

"Scott McKay" <scott.mckay at comcast.net> wrote in message
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> <mike420 at ziplip.com> wrote in message
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> > In the context of LATEX, some Pythonista asked what the big
> > successes of Lisp were. I think there were at least three *big*
> > successes.
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> > a. AFAIK Orbitz frequently has to be shut down for maintenance
> > (read "full garbage collection" - I'm just guessing: with
> > generational garbage collection, you still have to do full
> > garbage collection once in a while, and on a system like that
> > it can take a while)
> >
>
> Not true.  The servers do get restarted a couple of times
> a day to get new data loads, which are huge.

Does Orbitz have anything to do with Python?
If not, please leave c.l.py off further discussion thereof.