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Re:What Made Lisp Different (2002) by copper_think on Sunday February 18, 2018 @08:20PM (#16410082)
The garbage collector for Microsoft's Common Language Runtime (CLR -- the VM for .NET) was written in Lisp originally and then transpiled into C.
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Re:What Made Lisp Different (2002) by erikj on Sunday February 18, 2018 @09:22PM (#16410318)
Also, Apple's Interface Builder began its life as a Lisp program: http://vimeo.com/62618532
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Re:What Made Lisp Different (2002) by lispm on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:10AM (#16411696)
Postgres started as a Lisp program, and turned out to be too difficult to develop in a mix of C and Lisp.

The Objectstore database was developed by former Lispers, who wrote an earlier object-oriented database in Lisp.

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Re:What Made Lisp Different (2002) by mark_l_watson on Sunday February 18, 2018 @10:02PM (#16410456)
+1 for mentioning my friend Denny. I wrote an application that Experteliigence sold for me - lots of fun. Expertelligence had a high talent density.
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