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MADE IN LISP

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-10 23:34

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Name: Anonymous 2011-06-30 0:09

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Maxima is written entirely in Lisp

Maxima has broke every single time I've tried to use it. I mean that literally. It just freaks out and throws me back to the REPL at some point or another, and this is several different versions over a span of a few years (I wasn't even doing anything complicated...just partial differentiation and plots of functions of several variables). Axiom looks interesting, especially because it's been in development for-fucking-ever, and they've cataloged their source code/documentation in these hilarious 1,000 page PDF's. Wait, no.

and most of what is interesting in Emacs is written in EmacsLisp or some other dialect.

Emacs Lisp is about as engaging as petrified horse shit (no lexical scoping, LOL!) and Emacs is a bloated mess (I use it because everything else sucks more; that doesn't make it good).

Also, Guile Scheme is the ``official'' (not that it matter much) scripting language of the the GNU project, and you see it used in GNOME's games, Lilypond, Gimp and maybe some other odd programs.

I hate Scheme. Scheme is ALGOL with parentheses. If you're going to brag about using Lisp, man the fuck up and use CL (although Scheme being a Lisp-1 makes is marginally less braindamaged).  Guile is a slow, crippled mess. For the record, GIMP uses an interpreter called TinyScheme, which is also shit. Have you ever seen the Script-Fu scripts? Horrible.

Oh, and AutoCad uses some sort of Lisp for its scripting too, and who knows what else.

The AutoCAD Lisp dialect thing is hilariously awful.

ITA software was mainly a Lisp shop, but now it was bought by Google, though it's doubtful that they'll rewrite their flagship products very soon just to fit into their language schemes.

This was a decent example, but according to you Lisp is going to be phased out here.

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Wave that Lisp banner high, kiddies!

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