Irish LISP based startup sells for millions, founders in their teens

Mariano Montone wrote: > http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jBVNEN_EzH4Kdd2Sl3Pt1YywJbPQ Omigod! Patrick is the kid I ragged on so hard last year (or two?) for his Soc proposal to port a Web thingy to C! PWUAHAHAHHAHA! That is so great. I loved the bit about "his brother will finish school". :) kenny -- http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/ http://www.theoryyalgebra.com/ "In the morning, hear the Way; in the evening, die content!" -- Confucius

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:07:32 -0400, Ken Tilton wrote: > Mariano Montone wrote: >> http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jBVNEN_EzH4Kdd2Sl3Pt1YywJbPQ > > Omigod! Patrick is the kid I ragged on so hard last year (or two?) for > his Soc proposal to port a Web thingy to C! PWUAHAHAHHAHA! If there are no links, it didn't happen. -- Sohail Somani http://uint32t.blogspot.com

Mariano Montone <marianomontone@gmail.com> writes: > http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jBVNEN_EzH4Kdd2Sl3Pt1YywJbPQ What makes you think it is a Lisp app? On their blog they specifically state that they used Ruby on Rails. S.

Stefan Arentz wrote: > Mariano Montone <marianomontone@gmail.com> writes: > > >>http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jBVNEN_EzH4Kdd2Sl3Pt1YywJbPQ > > > What makes you think it is a Lisp app? On their blog they specifically > state that they used Ruby on Rails. Are you referring to the bit that said the younger brother /liked/ Rails? Meanwhile Patrick had an SoC proposal to take a killer continuation-based CL or Scheme web thingy and port it to C for speed -- ua think they did not use that?! What makes me think the Ruby remark is there just to put the competition off the scent? kenny -- http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/ http://www.theoryyalgebra.com/ "In the morning, hear the Way; in the evening, die content!" -- Confucius

Ken Tilton <kennytilton@optonline.net> writes: > Stefan Arentz wrote: >> Mariano Montone <marianomontone@gmail.com> writes: >> >> >>>http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jBVNEN_EzH4Kdd2Sl3Pt1YywJbPQ >> >> >> What makes you think it is a Lisp app? On their blog they specifically >> state that they used Ruby on Rails. > > Are you referring to the bit that said the younger brother /liked/ Rails? Actually, this posting: http://philkast.com/2008/3/27/auctomatic-has-been-acquired-by-live-current-media Says that they used Seaside. So it seems they are really a smalltalk shop :-) There is some 'discssion' about it on Reddit too: http://reddit.com/r/programming/info/6dmk2/comments/ S.

Stefan Arentz <stefan.arentz@gmail.com> writes: > Ken Tilton <kennytilton@optonline.net> writes: > >> Stefan Arentz wrote: >>> Mariano Montone <marianomontone@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>> >>>>http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jBVNEN_EzH4Kdd2Sl3Pt1YywJbPQ >>> >>> >>> What makes you think it is a Lisp app? On their blog they specifically >>> state that they used Ruby on Rails. >> >> Are you referring to the bit that said the younger brother /liked/ Rails? > > Actually, this posting: > > http://philkast.com/2008/3/27/auctomatic-has-been-acquired-by-live-current-media > > Says that they used Seaside. So it seems they are really a smalltalk shop :-) > > There is some 'discssion' about it on Reddit too: > > http://reddit.com/r/programming/info/6dmk2/comments/ http://www.seaside.st/about/users Auctomatic is a tool for managing your eBay business. The site allows you to keep track of your inventory, pictures, and auction templates, and track the traffic on your auctions so you can optimize your listing strategy. Auctomatic runs on Squeak and Seaside and has been recently acquired by Vancouver company Live Current for $5 million. S.