On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:45:58 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe wrote:
>
>I haven't thought about Lisp for about 40 years.
>Just out of curiosity, is it actually used outside of academia?
>Is it used at all outside of AI work?
>
>I was about to reapply the "sick puppy" title, but I hesitate.
>For all I know there is a community of well puppies using Lisp.
>(In which case I think I don't want to see the sick ones!)
>
It appears that Emacs is written in a dialect of Lisp:
Linkname: EmacsWiki: Emacs Lisp
URL: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsLisp
...
I don't know whether that affirms or refutes your assessment.
-- gil
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