On Dec 9, 2006, at 16:28, Corey Sweeney wrote:
Hey, I was wondering, what lisp extensible applications do people use?
Ones that I use, that I can think of right away are: text editor - emacs - (uses emacs lisp)
Yeah, GNU Emacs or XEmacs and SLIME.
What other lisp extensible apps does everyone use?
I have used Edi Wietz's Regex Coach, actually, to help me debug complicated regular expressions. It is actually really cool to use it for that. If one doesn't understand why a particular regular expression isn't matching in a way that one expects, one can just start typing the regular expression, and watch as what does match is highlighted. As soon as things are no longer being highlighted as one wants, it's usually pretty obvious what went wrong. But Regex Coach isn't extensible, so that doesn't really count, I suppose. I personally tend to use lisp mostly as a programming language. As most of the time I spend coding is devoted to work, and the product on which I work doesn't use lisp, I don't get to spend a whole lot of time programming in lisp. However, I do find excuses to use it. For example, I have recently written a very simplistic telnet-stream and my own anemic version (but it does do what I need to get done) of Don Libe's Expect (because I don't much like Tcl) to automate remote software installations.