Comcast blasted for seeking "loopholes" in rule requiring disclosure of all fees.

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[–] 16 points 3 years ago (1 child)

The airlines managed to figure it out, weirdly enough. Calculating the price of an airline seat is Turing-complete, and at least one airline software service, ITA, needed the runtime compilation feature of Common Lisp to do it efficiently. Yes, when a user asked for a ticket price, their systems wrote and compiled a piece of code to determine the answer.

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