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And Yahoo! paid 49 million dollars of stock to throw the LISP in the trash and use something else instead.

It wasn't even worth them spending 1 million dollars - 2% of that price - on training people.

http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=s...




Right. And that decision was surely one of the reasons Yahoo is the runaway success it is today.




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