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April Fool's Day 2006: CL Directory rewritten in Python

Sunday, April 2, 2006

Opinions on the Common Lisp Directory are -- how can I put it? -- "mixed". But I hope that there is wider consensus on its ability to generate a few laughs.

A few days ago Marc Battyani conceived a prank for the upcoming April Fool's Day. Yesterday he announced to comp.lang.lisp and other forums that the CL Directory server software had been rewritten in Python, as a spoof of the Reddit rewrite from Common Lisp to Python.

Amazingly, at least a couple of experienced programmers apparently bit. See this post and the #lisp IRC logs (start at 05:41:18).