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That's not unusual, historically some software had prototypes in Lisp. Some managed to get into production. Some even proved very hard to replace. But that was
by lispm 9y ago
That's not unusual, historically some software had prototypes in Lisp. Some managed to get into production. Some even proved very hard to replace.
But that was at a time when more people learned Lisp, there was less choice in tools and the eco-systems were smaller. In the 70s/80s one could buy ten years into the future with the right hardware/software and government/military was financing.
Take for example the Connection Machine CM 1, an early massive-parallel computer with 2^16 processors. It was initially developed largely for and with Lisp. You could program it in *Lisp from a Lisp Machine - one of the most expensive co-processors. Fortran and C was added then for certain commercial users. Very expensive stuff and at least ten years ahead.
Today the landscape looks different.
- copper_think 9y agoThe garbage collector for Microsoft's Common Language Runtime (CLR -- the VM for .NET) was written in Lisp originally and then transpiled into C.
- erikj 9y agoAlso, Apple's Interface Builder began its life as a Lisp program: http://vimeo.com/62618532 http://vimeo.com/62618532
- mark_l_watson 9y ago+1 for mentioning my friend Denny. I wrote an application that Experteliigence sold for me - lots of fun. Expertelligence had a high talent density.
- lispm 9y agoPostgres started as a Lisp program, and turned out to be too difficult to develop in a mix of C and Lisp. The Objectstore database was developed by former Lispers, who wrote an earlier object-oriented database in Lisp.