On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Patrick O'Keefe wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:26:53 -0400, David Andrews > <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > >(... or Lisp!) ... > > I haven't thought about Lisp for about 40 years. > Just out of curiosity, is it actually used outside of academia?
It is. At least, in mathematical sense - I mean, I know for sure about one place outside of academia (that is, actually, my home). > Is it used at all outside of AI work? There is a whole bunch of languages belonging to Lisp family. As far as I can tell, they are quite capable for general use. To be frank, almost every language I used up to now has failed in one way or another. The "failure" is most often a growing difficulty to express something complicated enough. Myself being a language/programming guy (rather than hardware/system guy), I pay a lot of attention to this issue. >From more than a year I have been testing Scheme. So far so good. > 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!) :-) We are everywhere, you can never be sure if you just did not see one... Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
