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Lisping at JPL (2020)

56 points by signa11 5y ago

phoe-krk 5y ago
Also discussed countless times before - see https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Lisping%20at%20JPL&type=story&dateRange=all&sort=byDate&storyText=false&prefix&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Lisping%20at%20JPL&type=story&...
moioci 5y ago
2020 or 2002?
- phoe-krk 5y ago
  2002.
35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> Dave hired Colin Angle (then a grad student working for Rod Brooks at MIT, now CEO of IS Robotics) as a summer student At the time this article was published, it looked like IS Robotics was primarily a defense/military robotics contractor. Very soon after they would've released their new line of home robotics and rebranded as iRobot. Searching their career page / their SWE roles doesn't show much in the way of Lisp, but I recall people saying it used to power Roomba.
- p_l 5y ago
  Original Roomba was programmed in custom lisp implementation, essentially cut-down common lisp IIRC. Their careers page will occasionally show Lisp jobs, still. And I'm not sure when, or if, they actually divested of military contracts.
  - kazinator 5y ago
    Mark and sweep!
vindarel 5y ago
For those interested, today we have a source which references some present companies that use CL in production. It is by no means an official one, we collect data when we find it, but it makes our answer to "who uses CL?" way better than only 2 years ago: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ Google (still, with ITA Software, people from Google contribute heavily to SBCL), Intel (for the Tofino programmable chip https://allegrograph.com/press_room/barefoot-networks-uses-franzs-allegro-cl-to-drive-artificial-intelligence-in-networks/ https://allegrograph.com/press_room/barefoot-networks-uses-f...), all quantum computing companies (the new AI?), Boeing, web companies (the new OSS app Screenshotbot), cloud providers (keepit), music products (the awesome ScoreCloud app), banks (russian Sberbank), financial analytics (Ravenpack), etc. Several of them are still hiring.
- gibsonf1 5y ago
  https://graphmetrix.com https://graphmetrix.com is using sbcl common lisp for the entire conceptual AI system and decentralized server with the Solid protocol https://solidproject.org/ https://solidproject.org/
scelerat 5y ago
> 1988-1991 - The Robotics Years My dad was a project manager at JPL during this time and I was in jr high or high school. I remember visiting during a JPL Open House and seeing a Mac IIcx or IIcx (the smaller Mac II box) mounted on a small RC-car-sized rover-like chassis autonomously roaming the grounds. I suspect the author of this piece had a hand in that

56 points by signa11 5y ago

Also discussed countless times before - see https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Lisping%20at%20JPL&type=story&dateRange=all&sort=byDate&storyText=false&prefix&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Lisping%20at%20JPL&type=story&...

moioci 5y ago

2020 or 2002?

phoe-krk 5y ago
2002.

35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago

> Dave hired Colin Angle (then a grad student working for Rod Brooks at MIT, now CEO of IS Robotics) as a summer student At the time this article was published, it looked like IS Robotics was primarily a defense/military robotics contractor. Very soon after they would've released their new line of home robotics and rebranded as iRobot. Searching their career page / their SWE roles doesn't show much in the way of Lisp, but I recall people saying it used to power Roomba.

p_l 5y ago
Original Roomba was programmed in custom lisp implementation, essentially cut-down common lisp IIRC. Their careers page will occasionally show Lisp jobs, still. And I'm not sure when, or if, they actually divested of military contracts.
- kazinator 5y ago
  Mark and sweep!

vindarel 5y ago

For those interested, today we have a source which references some present companies that use CL in production. It is by no means an official one, we collect data when we find it, but it makes our answer to "who uses CL?" way better than only 2 years ago: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ Google (still, with ITA Software, people from Google contribute heavily to SBCL), Intel (for the Tofino programmable chip https://allegrograph.com/press_room/barefoot-networks-uses-franzs-allegro-cl-to-drive-artificial-intelligence-in-networks/ https://allegrograph.com/press_room/barefoot-networks-uses-f...), all quantum computing companies (the new AI?), Boeing, web companies (the new OSS app Screenshotbot), cloud providers (keepit), music products (the awesome ScoreCloud app), banks (russian Sberbank), financial analytics (Ravenpack), etc. Several of them are still hiring.

gibsonf1 5y ago
https://graphmetrix.com https://graphmetrix.com is using sbcl common lisp for the entire conceptual AI system and decentralized server with the Solid protocol https://solidproject.org/ https://solidproject.org/

scelerat 5y ago

> 1988-1991 - The Robotics Years My dad was a project manager at JPL during this time and I was in jr high or high school. I remember visiting during a JPL Open House and seeing a Mac IIcx or IIcx (the smaller Mac II box) mounted on a small RC-car-sized rover-like chassis autonomously roaming the grounds. I suspect the author of this piece had a hand in that