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Kind of amazing they are still a going business. I didn't realise any companies really used lisp for anything. I assume whoever is paying them money is doing so
by morelish 4y ago
Kind of amazing they are still a going business. I didn't realise any companies really used lisp for anything. I assume whoever is paying them money is doing so for some really niche or legacy?
- jolmg 4y agoA few days ago I noticed that commercial Smalltalk also still exists: https://www.cincom.com/us/smalltalk https://www.cincom.com/us/smalltalk By niche, I assume you mean niche interest rather than niche purpose. They're both general-purpose languages that are usable on the latest OSes, after all.
- diskzero 4y agoI am a current LispWorks customer using the product for new product development. I wouldn’t consider my usage niche, but then again, I am not sure what you may consider to be niche or not.
- dilawar 4y agoIsn't grammarly using lisp?
- hajile 4y agoI did some work for a machine translation business that used Common Lisp as their "secret sauce". As they considered it a serious competitive advantage, you wouldn't hear about it anywhere. I've seen this with quite a few other companies since, but that means that lots of companies could be using lisp and nobody would ever know about it.
- kazinator 4y agoSome years ago I read the same "secret weapon" rhetoric on a website dedicated to ... Cobol; I've not taken it seriously since.
- thoueioruo2i34 4y agoOne of the biggest workloads on Google's Borg is the one running the flight-scheduling service that run on CL.