reddit.com rewritten in Python

[Peter Hansen]

Jay Parlar wrote:
> reddit.com, which was formerly implemented in LISP (and somewhat famous 
> for that fact) has just *relaunched* and is now written in Python!
> 
> They haven't given their reasons yet, but I'll certainly be interested 
> to see why.

On that last issue, the post at 
http://reddit.com/blog/2005/12/night-of-living-python.html says:

"""For all you Lispers, stay tuned for a longer post about why we 
rewrote in Python."""

-Peter