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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2020) by medo-bear on Thursday February 03, 2022 @10:36PM (#30202545)
hi. thanks for sharing your experience. i just saw in your profile that your domain is security. if i may ask, do you have experience with lisp in this field, particularly as far as networking and encryption is concerned?

as regards this 10x business, i actually wasn't being very serious. it was just a playful response to the parent's claim that lisp is not suitable for large teams

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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2020) by wglb on Thursday February 03, 2022 @11:33PM (#30202912)
No, oddly my security work (mostly application security and a bit of compliance work) is not with Lisp. Although I do use Lisp to generate my documentation.

I have toyed with the idea of using Lisp to take apart binaries.

Also, Lisp wouldn't be very good with encryption, as it doesn't do constant time very well.

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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2020) by medo-bear on Friday February 04, 2022 @12:16AM (#30203163)
> Also, Lisp wouldn't be very good with encryption, as it doesn't do constant time very well.

I would have thought that's implementation dependent

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