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It’s not super common anymore but it is used. Some examples: • Clojure which runs on the JVM enjoys considerable popularity. • Common Lisp seems to be popula
by tester89 7y ago
It’s not super common anymore but it is used.
Some examples:
• Clojure which runs on the JVM enjoys considerable popularity.
• Common Lisp seems to be popular amongst Quantum Computing researchers.
• Racket enjoys popularity by way of the Pollen Typesetting Engine.
• Emacs Lisp is used for all Emacs scripting.
• AutoLisp is used to script code for AutoCAD
• HackerNews is written in ArcLisp.
• Square Enix employs a proprietary dialect as a scripting language.
- eatonphil 7y agoMany GNU programs come with a builtin Scheme interpreter (gdb, for example).
- leethargo 7y agoYou mean GNU Guile?
- eatonphil 7y agoYep [0]. However GIMP does not use Guile, it uses TinyScheme for it's Script-Fu [1]. [0] https://www.sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb.html#Guile https://www.sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb.html#Guile [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyScheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyScheme
- gaze 7y agoIt’s not popular among quantum computing groups. We largely use python. It’s popular in a group inside rigetti.
- mike_ivanov 7y ago1. https://www.schloerconsulting.com/quantum-computer-q-lisp-programming-language https://www.schloerconsulting.com/quantum-computer-q-lisp-pr... 2. https://lispjobs.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/senior-software-engineer-d-wave-burnaby-british-columbia-canada/ https://lispjobs.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/senior-software-en... Neither of them is Rigetti.
- gaze 7y agoThe first seems like a nonserious thing and D-Wave is a crank company.
- mike_ivanov 7y agoAye, no TRUE quantum computing company (except for Rigetti) wid dae that!
- tester89 7y agoI guess I assumed Stylewarning was representative, although I'm not surprised at the use of python, I probably would've expected that had I not seen Stylewarning's video.