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sphtoday at 4:25 PM3 repliesview on HN

What has Lisp ever done for us?


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vindareltoday at 6:01 PM

Flight search (Google's ITA Software), underground planning (SISCOG), CAD software (PTC Creo et all), the Gollum face (Mirai), automation of document extraction, renewable energies resource planning (3E), project management (planisware),

games (Kandria),

Maxima,

a faster pgloader (https://tapoueh.org/blog/2014/05/why-is-pgloader-so-much-fas...),

hackernews (was rewritten to SBCL: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/hacker-news-now-runs-on-...), first reddit…

https://lisp-screenshots.org/

https://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/

also Emacs (for another dialect).

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iLemmingtoday at 7:18 PM

> What has Lisp ever done for us?

phanitathion, roaphs, aqueduphs, mediphine, wphine...

I'm sorry. Couldn't resist - I watch Python and do Lisp. Or the other way around, sometimes.

arikrahmantoday at 5:14 PM

The aqueducts!