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Comment by sph

2 days ago

What has Lisp ever done for us?

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vindarel  2 days ago

Flight search (Google's ITA Software), underground planning (SISCOG), CAD software (PTC Creo et all), the Gollum face (Mirai), automation of document extraction, renewable energies resource planning (3E), project management (planisware),

games (Kandria),

Maxima,

a faster pgloader (https://tapoueh.org/blog/2014/05/why-is-pgloader-so-much-fas...),

hackernews (was rewritten to SBCL: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/hacker-news-now-runs-on-...), first reddit…

https://lisp-screenshots.org/

https://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/

also Emacs (for another dialect).

  • sph  2 days ago

    Yeah but apart from SBCL, Viaweb, Hacker News, Emacs, Clojure, Scheme, Racket, garbage collection, macros, homoiconicity, the REPL, S-expressions, symbolic computation, what has Lisp ever done for us?

iLemming  2 days ago

> What has Lisp ever done for us?

phanitathion, roaphs, aqueduphs, mediphine, wphine...

I'm sorry. Couldn't resist - I watch Python and do Lisp. Or the other way around, sometimes. And, no, I'm not from Barthselona.

pjmlp  1 day ago

"We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."

- Guy Steele, Java spec co-author

"35 years of Lisping at SISCOG"

https://www.siscog.pt/en-us/blog/35-years-of-lisping-at-sisc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs

https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-A0E9...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp

  • sph  6 hours ago

    I respect Guy Steele immensely, but his view of Java as being halfway to Lisp is sign that he had jumped the shark by that point, and find it hard to take the rest of his work seriously.