dlweinreb

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by dlweinreb 18y ago
Take a look at InspireData ( http://www.inspiration.com/InspireData ). It is entirely written in Common Lisp ( http://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/inspiredata.html ). The creators of InspireData used Lisp for its high productivity an
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by dlweinreb 18y ago
Soon, lisp.org will be redone to make it easy to find good free Lisp implementations. Meanwhile, check out my survey paper at http://common-lisp.net/~dlw/LispSurvey.html .
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by dlweinreb 18y ago
Yes, lisp.org needs to be (and will be) vastly improved. We definitely need the equivalent of a CPAN for Lisp, and several of us are working on producing such a thing. You're quite about marketing! As for multiple implementations: CPython,
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by dlweinreb 18y ago
By the way (this is a serious question), what software products have been produced that were written in Haskell?
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by dlweinreb 18y ago
I disagree about that. It's very, very hard to add Lisp-style macros to something like C or Java. The best attempt to do it for Java is Jonathan Bachrach's Java Syntactic Extender, but as far as I know nobody has built any software with i
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by dlweinreb 18y ago
In practice, it's just not a problem, because your interactive development environment takes care of it for you. I think the idea that anyone should be expected to program by using something with the power of Microsoft Notepad is an obsole
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by dlweinreb 18y ago
It's true that earlier Lisp dialects had trouble. But in Common Lisp, you can do currying just fine. At work (ITA Software), it's part of our standard utility library.
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by dlweinreb 18y ago
I'd like to understand what you mean. Is there a way you could provide an illustrative example?
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by dlweinreb 18y ago
Thank you for the kind words! I don't think that Brandon Werner said that Lisp was a failure as a language. As I read it, he's saying that Lisp has failed to capture a lot of new users, get very popular, and so on. I agree with you that a
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by dlweinreb 18y ago
I recommend that you get in touch with Clozure (www.clozure.com). They know more about contract Lisp work than just about anybody. There are many consultants who work, via Clozure, for companies doing work in Lisp. Or, apply for a job at
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by dlweinreb 19y ago
It's true that the system was feature-laden. I think this was more true of the API's than the user interfaces, though, and so I'm not sure that the Steve Jobs reference is exactly appropriate. Steve Jobs is making consumer products; most
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by dlweinreb 19y ago
In all fairness, the manuals that filled a whole shelf documented a lot of major applications. On my desk right now, I have a copy of the O'Reilley book on Subversion (a source control system). I have another book on Emacs. And so on. AL
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by dlweinreb 19y ago
Iced tea. (My employer provides it for free...)
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by dlweinreb 19y ago
Having been a co-founder of two VC-backed startups, I can say that everything in this essay makes a lot of sense, sounds very plausible, and is entirely consistent with my experience. Great essay!