From: Dr. Edmund Weitz
Subject: Article about SABRE/ORBITZ at paulgraham.com/Slashdot
Date:
Message-ID: <pu4aqwg3.fsf@agharta.de>
Paul Graham has published a very interesting "report from the field"
at <http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html>. It's about how the airfare
shopping/pricing system of ITA Software <http://www.itasoftware.com> -
written in Common Lisp and utilizing ACL as well as CMUCL - is
replacing the legacy SABRE solutions. Well worth a read!
Mr. Graham has also submitted the URL to Slashdot, the discussion can
be found at
<http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/16/0653247&mode=thread&threshold=1>.
Maybe some of you want to take part while the topic is still 'hot'
there... :)
Edi
From: Wade Humeniuk
Subject: Re: Article about SABRE/ORBITZ at paulgraham.com/Slashdot
Date:
Message-ID: <a24s1i$ohi$1@news3.cadvision.com>
First stop, CL replacement for the SABER system....
In between stops....
THEN
Last Stop, CL replacement for the US Air Traffic Control System. (The
project that has breathtakingly failed so many times before).
Wade
"Dr. Edmund Weitz" <···@agharta.de> wrote in message
·················@agharta.de...
> Paul Graham has published a very interesting "report from the field"
> at <http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html>. It's about how the airfare
> shopping/pricing system of ITA Software <http://www.itasoftware.com> -
> written in Common Lisp and utilizing ACL as well as CMUCL - is
> replacing the legacy SABRE solutions. Well worth a read!
>
> Mr. Graham has also submitted the URL to Slashdot, the discussion can
> be found at
>
<http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/16/0653247&mode=thread&threshold=1
>.
> Maybe some of you want to take part while the topic is still 'hot'
> there... :)
>
> Edi
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:03:56 +0100, ···@agharta.de (Dr. Edmund Weitz)
wrote:
>replacing the legacy SABRE solutions.
My memory is dim. Wasn't SABRE one of the systems
mentioned in Robert Glass book ( the title may be vague )
Softwrwe Crisis?
The book described problems that were encountered developing
softawre.
From: Martin Cracauer
Subject: Re: Article about SABRE/ORBITZ at paulgraham.com/Slashdot
Date:
Message-ID: <a24jgl$24qs$1@counter.bik-gmbh.de>
···@agharta.de (Dr. Edmund Weitz) writes:
>Paul Graham has published a very interesting "report from the field"
>at <http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html>. It's about how the airfare
>shopping/pricing system of ITA Software <http://www.itasoftware.com> -
>written in Common Lisp and utilizing ACL as well as CMUCL - is
>replacing the legacy SABRE solutions. Well worth a read!
The slashdot guys screwed up. It is Orbitz, not Sabre.
Martin
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········@counter.bik-gmbh.de (Martin Cracauer) writes:
> ···@agharta.de (Dr. Edmund Weitz) writes:
>
> >Paul Graham has published a very interesting "report from the field"
> >at <http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html>. It's about how the airfare
> >shopping/pricing system of ITA Software <http://www.itasoftware.com> -
> >written in Common Lisp and utilizing ACL as well as CMUCL - is
> >replacing the legacy SABRE solutions. Well worth a read!
>
> The slashdot guys screwed up. It is Orbitz, not Sabre.
Indeed.
Many projects at Sabre over the last N years have had the intent of
replacing the assembly language S390 code. The last one I was aware
of involved moving it over to be a distributed mixture of C++ and
Java, using Informix as DBMS and interfacing to it using
CORBA/MQ-Series/[some other messaging system I don't recall].
Many such projects have pretty much failed.
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