Running Lisp in Production (2020)

Re:Running Lisp in Production (2020) by mbrodersen on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @08:00PM (#30186897)

Can you give examples? I see a lot of hype but no actuals. Becoming super productive in any language requires a lot more skills than just learning the syntax and semantics of a language. So why do you think Lisp is different? It would help if you could point at real world projects that demonstrate your claims.

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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2020) by medo-bear on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @08:12PM (#30186984)

i can't tell you because the *lisp-king-lizard* will come and eat me if i divulge secrets

EDIT: see the problem i have with your post is its tone and refusal to read what i actually wrote. if you read it properly i am not saying anything different to what you seem to be saying: if you are a good programmer you can be productive in any language, including lisp. if you are a crappy programmer, knowing how to write lisp is not going to save you. knowing how to write lisp is trivial. even implementing some (minimal) dialect of lisp is not too difficult

on the other hand, i think that repl-driven development that is available to many (all?) common lisp implementations is unmatched in any language, and i think that this is unique to common lisp. please see the post by mikelevins in this thread that details this process. i think this can be a great productivity booster for production as well as exploratory programming. in any event i enjoy it a lot

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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2020) by mbrodersen on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @08:21PM (#30187057)

No need to risk that. Just impress us by telling us about the awesome software you have written with your 10x more productive language. I can’t wait.

… crickets …

Still waiting :)

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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2020) by reikonomusha on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:06AM (#30189919)

A video about Lisp being used for difficult commercial computational problems: https://youtu.be/f9vRcSAneiw

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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2020) by medo-bear on Thursday February 03, 2022 @07:59AM (#30191843)

cheers mate! your work is killer btw :) go hard

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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2020) by medo-bear on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @08:36PM (#30187215)

ok i couldn't resist ... Lisp is written in Lisp :)

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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2020) by mbrodersen on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @09:58PM (#30187958)

The question is what you have written in Lisp. My guess is very little? Anything used in production anywhere? Go on. It's OK to brag a little :)

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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2020) by medo-bear on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @10:27PM (#30188188)

get well buddy :)

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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2020) by mbrodersen on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:04PM (#30188515)

Ahhh so you have written zero production software in Lisp. As expected.

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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2020) by medo-bear on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:46PM (#30188808)

still waiting on those lisp implementations of yours mate. ur full of it and you know it ;)

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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2020) by mbrodersen on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @09:36PM (#30187758)

And C is written in C, and Haskell is written in Haskell etc. etc. :)

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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2020) by mbrodersen on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @09:40PM (#30187795)

And Emacs is written in C by the way :)

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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2020) by lispm on Thursday February 03, 2022 @12:10AM (#30188948)

If you think about GNU Emacs, that one is written in C and Emacs Lisp. The original one was written in TECO. I'm using two other ones, which are written in Lisp.

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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2020) by wglb on Thursday February 03, 2022 @09:24PM (#30202043)

Ah TECO. I spent some seriously quality time writing compilers in Bliss 36 with TECO. I still have muscle memory of TECO.

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