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Re:Why Lisp? by _s_a_m_ on Friday November 04, 2022 @06:14AM (#33464197)
What significantly else? These seems to be many reasons why people dont use Lisp.
Re:Why Lisp? by pjmlp on Friday November 04, 2022 @06:38AM (#33464435)
Lisp was Python in the first AI wave, and having it failing to meet expectations burned many bridges.

Commercial software + hardware required to comfortably run Lisp Machines was more expensive than UNIX workstations.

Having paid for UNIX workstations, most shops would just use C and C++ instead of paying for commercial Lisp packages on top, plus scripting languages like Tcl and Perl brought a bit of Lisp like experience into UNIX.

Eventually most of the stuff that made Lisp awesome ended up in Smalltalk, Java. .NET, Dylan, Julia, Python however there is still plenty missing from the whole experience.

Re:Why Lisp? by ctrlmeta on Friday November 04, 2022 @06:21AM (#33464265)
Sorry, couldn't parse your comment. What do you mean to ask when you ask what significantly else? Examples of companies that use Lisp? The link in the comment you are replying to does not answer that?
Re:Why Lisp? by Davidbrcz on Friday November 04, 2022 @06:20AM (#33464253)
Maxima, the CAS system
Re:Why Lisp? by TurboHaskal on Friday November 04, 2022 @07:02AM (#33464682)
Are you perhaps implying programming languages are chosen on technical merits?
Re:Why Lisp? by thesuperbigfrog on Friday November 04, 2022 @08:50AM (#33465711)
The Interleaf document creation software was written in Lisp:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaf

It lives on today as Broadvision QuickSilver, which still runs on Lisp:

https://broadvision.com/broadvision/quicksilver/quicksilver-...

Re:Why Lisp? by slowmovintarget on Friday November 04, 2022 @09:37AM (#33466457)
The whole Clojure ecosystem is another worth considering, including systems like Datomic, and Datomic Cloud (commercial product and SaaS product respectively).