Time to resurrect The Road to Lisp? :)
Didier you remind me of how I ignored the MCL ads in the APDA catalog when looking for sth better than C, until someone watching my public search dope-slapped me on Compuserve and I saw the light. And I had prototyped my project in Logo and tried porting it to ExperLisp!! Perhaps struggles with the latter carried over. Glad we both completed our journeys.
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 10:36 AM Bob Cassels bobcassels@netscape.net wrote:
Hey Martin,
Good to hear from you! Thanks for the computational chemistry links! I have a passing interest in that.
I have not used CL since the ITA / Google reservation system project stopped. :-(
I did a bunch of JavaScript for a while, and pretended it was Lisp. Now I’m at a small robotics startup, and just in the process of moving the group toward Julia. For some Lidar point cloud and camera perception stuff, and other analysis in the autonomous vehicle space. I’m liking Julia a lot. Probably because they made a lot of the same language design choices we did with Dylan. And a few that I wish we had made. ;-)
Bob
On May 8, 2020, at 11:26 AM, Martin Cracauer cracauer@cons.org wrote:
Daniel Kochma??ski wrote on Fri, May 08, 2020 at 09:32:56AM +0200:
Hey Burton,
This list is not very active, but some of us still use Common Lisp as
their main language :)
This list was heavily used by the reservation system side of ITA Software. The reservation system went under, and the ITA Flights Search people are more into IRC, reddit and the like. There were also some different opinions on open source and implementation details.
Myself I'm in a new Common Lisp job after being ITA/GoogleFlights inventory (on the search side). We use Clasp Common Lisp for computational chemistry. Check out our demo videos, from Lisp/programming conferences. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xYBaHwB2kDCXaRALXdh7w
We already hired another full-time programmer who mostly does Lisp. So far so good I'd say.
Martin
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