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The ex-MIT people who started the company were really good at robotics, and with MIT being a Lisp powerhouse the choice was perhaps natural. But thing is if y

by varjag 5y ago

The ex-MIT people who started the company were really good at robotics, and with MIT being a Lisp powerhouse the choice was perhaps natural. But thing is if you are good at Lisp you can move really, really fast. I also do embedded development (mostly with C) but the last project I had an opportunity to do in Common Lisp. It was a fantastic experience with perfect commercial outcome. It feels like you move mountains.

lispm 5y ago
> The ex-MIT people who started the company were really good at robotics and Lisp. Rodney Brooks worked on S1 Lisp and Lucid Common Lisp. He was a co-founder of Lucid, Inc. and wrote the book 'Programming in Common Lisp' (Wiley, 1985). See for example: "Design of an Optimizing, Dynamically Retargetable Compiler for Common Lisp", 1986. The authors (incl. Rodney Brooks) worked for Lucid, Inc. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221252387_Design_of_an_Optimizing_Dynamically_Retargetable_Compiler_for_Common_Lisp https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221252387_Design_of...