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“ Our Lisp services are conceptually a classical AI application that operates on huge piles of knowledge created by linguists and researchers. It’s mostly a CPU

“ Our Lisp services are conceptually a classical AI application that operates on huge piles of knowledge created by linguists and researchers. It’s mostly a CPU-bound program, and it is one of the biggest consumers of computing resources in our network.” So what I’d like to know, is would a modern “AI” approach (ML/DL) based on literature samples as input, as opposed to classical AI sitting atop an expert system/linguistic knowledge, fair any better if you were starting, say, Grammarly today? That said, I enjoyed the article and it’s nice to have an example of Lisp being used in prod. My only experience of it is from using elisp. What are the differences between elisp and lisp?

reikonomusha 5y ago
Common Lisp is a compiled language that has a standard. Like many standardized languages, it has multiple free and commercial implementations. It has a pretty extensive object orientation system with multiple inheritance and multiple-dispatch methods.
BlanketLogic 5y ago
> What are the differences between elisp and lisp? common lisp is a general purpose programming language with a well specified language and standard library. Elisp is intricately tied to emacs. Notable differences are , till recently(?), elisp has only dynamic scoping for variables. Common lisp has, by default, lexical scoping for variables (while also allowing dynamic scoping). Common lisp has much better support for closures than elisp. Common lisp has very mature commercial and open source compilers that produce very efficient code.