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btw, I, too, couldn't find traces of the lisp side of this project after a 15 minute search. I was curious about the fix times and lisp codebase size

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Thanks! Right, so the successful version was the one written in Lisp. Okay, that's actually understandable. At that time, managed languages were not widely used, and C is really not a good choice for that kind of project. If those are the two options, I can certainly see how Lisp would do better.

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