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Common Lisp: Inside Sabre

Posted by chrisd on from the little-inventive-scheme-programmers dept.

bugbear writes "I just got permission from the author (Carl de Marcken of ITA Software) to publish this email, which describes the inner workings of Sabre, the flight search software that the airlines and travel agencies use. It is a case study in cheap Linux/Intel, NT/Intel and Hpux boxes replacing mainframes, and also the use of lisp and other languages in a server-based app. Update: 01/16 13:45 GMT by H :RawDigits writes "Common Lisp: Inside Sabre - correction. The Lisp engine is used by Orbitz, and not Sabre. Sabre still maintains mainframe systems for their booking. I should know, I am sitting in the Orbitz NOC right now ;)"

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  1. Frost Piss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Beat this!!!

    acwork2

  2. LISP sucks. Emacs sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Second post !

  3. bugbear by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So, you got permission from Carl ? Good. Now you can suck his dick !

  4. More like "Look how clever we are!" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    I expected to see a report on how Sabre works... not a long diatribe - 'oooh, look at us - we do it faster!' - about the replacement software these guys have cooked up.

    Well done on getting some free advertising.

  5. Oh, no! Not Linux! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    No wonder the reservation system is so slow
    and unstable.
    I wish they would have had the foresight to
    pick the more stable FreeBSD for their Intel
    systems.