How good are people at making decisions? http://danluu.com/bad-decisions/
It sounds like they used C or C++ for core stuff? Yegge is careful to avoid saying that they used Lisp for Obidos and instead says that it was written by brilliant people, some of whom liked Lisp and/or used emacs. https://stackoverflow.com/a/545151/334816 https://www.quora.com/How-did-Google-Amazon-and-the-like-initially-develop-and-code-their-websites-databases-etc/answer/Charlie-Cheever?srid=0uc&share=1 …
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It is probably true! I have no knowledge one way or the other; but Mr Yegge’s account is that AMZN was not built on blub. (Assuming C++ is blub but C is not.)
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