[zzygan]

This must have come out of the ITA Software acquisition.... (Heading "Attention required" 'You must follow the ITA convention of using...') They were a big common lisp user apparently.

Google is normally very specific on the languages allowed for internal projects. A product/company acquisition with large assets written in common lisp would necessitate this becoming the "Google Common lisp style guide" rather than what it was most likely originally the "ITA Software" common lisp style guide. Speculation of course, but looks likely.

[hollerith]

>This must have come out of the ITA Software acquisition

One of the authors, the one that goes by the name Faré, definitely came with the ITA acquisition.

[geofft]

ITA continues to be heavy users of Common Lisp.

[mck-]

Do you know this for a fact? That'd be quite impressive if the Lispers maintained strong against Google's policies.. I remember reading that they ported over