Hi,Used CL professionally from 2008 to 2017, now working mostly with Java and a little bit of Perl (yes, Perl as in Perl).Transitioning to Perl was hard, but after about a year I grew to have some respect for it. Moose is actually a pretty developer friendly OO framework, and it reminds me in many aspects of CLOS. Now Java... That has been a hard transition. Even with all the niceties they've been introducing since Java 8 (the Streams API for example), it's just a pain in the neck. Testing for example can be extremely painful, especially when working with legacy code with lots of anti-patterns (mocking and stubbing is a nightmare in some cases). And even with all the improvements to the language, it still encourages a great deal of verbosity.Anyway, I still hang on to Emacs and use Emacs Lisp occasionally for throwaway scripts. I do miss CL though. I wish there were more CL jobs going around.Cheers,r.On Wed, 13 May 2020, 08:40 Adrien Piérard, <axioplase@gmail.com> wrote:Since everyone is doing it, I'll join the fray!Haven't used a Lisp professionally in forever. I did Scheme from undergrad to grad school (with Dr Scheme and then Gambit), I used SISC to work on a major retail website around 2006, and as far as Common Lisp is concerned, I worked with Allegro CL in 2008 to do NLP in for English and Japanese. I still fire up SBCL/quicklisp for hobby projects.Cheers,P!On Sun, 10 May 2020 at 11:18, Nick Levine <nick@nicklevine.org> wrote:Hi Alexandre.We process text (in bulk), mostly news but from other sources also, and we extract meaning from it. The more sophisticated this becomes, the greater our need to pull each sentence apart and see how it really ticks. “Parts of speech“ is an important stepping stone; “computational linguistics” is the broader study.- nickOn 10 May 2020, at 13:35, Alexandre Rademaker <arademaker@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Nick,
Can you tell more about it?RavenPack implementing computational linguistics (mainly) in Allegro.
Alexandre
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