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List of Companies Currently Using Lisp and Scheme - please help me expand it
- pchristensen 19y agoShooter, Zak, joshwa, vikram, ias, chris_l, gibsonf1, phony_identity, herdrick, and brlewis - I mentioned all of you from comments you made about using Lisp/Scheme in your startups/companies (pg too, of course)
- brlewis 19y agoThanks! I appreciate the support.
- chris_l 19y agoTerraminds twitter search (http://terraminds.com/twitter/ http://terraminds.com/twitter/) uses Common Lisp for everything but the (external) indexing engine. Btw, did you use a search of hacker news to find our usernames?
- pchristensen 19y agoI did a few Google searches like "Lisp company site:news.ycombinator.com" and "scheme startup site:news.ycombinator.com" and then read through a bunch of long, old conversations. While I was doing it, my question of "Why hasn't anyone done this yet?" was answered very clearly!
- Zak 19y agoAn easy way to find more would be to go through http://weitz.de http://weitz.de and look at the page for each library. Most of them have a list of some of the users. Clutu, TwitterBuzz, Jalat, Heike Stephan, xOs, and the NIST all use Hunchentoot. CafeSpot, Cleartrip, PK Bass & Tackle, and the Cork Multitext Project use its predecessor, TBNL.
- pg 19y agoAt YC we use Arc not only for this site but also for a bunch of internal software we use to run YC itself.
- pchristensen 19y agoI figured as much but didn't want to presume :). I'll update that.
- tptacek 19y agoApple uses Scheme in the new Leopard security scheme.
- pchristensen 19y agoThanks for the additions, keep them coming! I'm going out of town for the holidays but I'll add these and more in the next week or so.
- projectileboy 19y agoiRobot occasionally posts jobs for Lisp hackers. I believe they use their own DSL built off Common Lisp for their consumer stuff (Roomba, etc.). However, I don't work there, so any iRobot employees out there are welcome to tell me I'm full of it...
- ivankirigin 19y agoYou're right. The home robots side that makes the roomba's uses a version of lisp. The PackBot side uses C++, tcl, and python.