Demise of Lisp in JPL

An interesting article on demise of Lisp in JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab) to give way to more 'hip' programming languages like C++ and Java:

http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html


If you ever spent any respectable days in the tech industry, you will see the industry is usually not controlled and managed by the ablest and most competent people. In fact, most people (especially managers and up) are:

• Clueless about the technology
• Always assuming the hottest technologies are the best, regardless of the skillsets of the engineers and the applicability of the problems at hand