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One aspect of lisp that I love the most is the "map" function. Arguably, many languages have it now and the infamous Google's map/reduce was inspired by this :-
by samratjp 17y ago
One aspect of lisp that I love the most is the "map" function. Arguably, many languages have it now and the infamous Google's map/reduce was inspired by this :-)
Also, Lisp has been used in many A.I applications, natural language processing, and of course, I believe this little company called Viaweb (founded by one of the HN users, pg, I think ;-) used lisp to their competitive advantage.
- CyberFonic 17y agoYes, PG himself (HN BDFL?). If you check out his articles you'll find an interesting bit of history on it. The biggest joke is that after ViaWeb was acquired the suits decided that "it had to be " re-written in C++.