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by Guthur 4578 days ago
Unfortunately I think many people get "Lost In Stupid Parenthesis" because they either refuse to use or are not supplied with the proper tools. Lisp programs are of such an elegant structure form that they lend them selves to highly structured editing tools.

I use CL in my day job and would find it highly painful if I did not have all the editing tools I use. Basic things like auto closing parenthesis; this makes the whole I need to balance my parenthesis issue disappear, coupled with transforming existing symbolic expression.
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Mikeb85 4578 days ago
> I use CL in my day job and would find it highly painful if I did not have all the editing tools I use.

Just curious, what kind of things do you do with CL at work? I'm always interested in how people use less-common languages :)

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Jach 4578 days ago
I love hearing about that sort of stuff too... Especially video games (GOOL and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.friendlyvi...) and Mars rovers (http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html) and other things that now are dominated by other languages. With Lisp, I'm always reminded of this quote:

"Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list." --Kent Pitman

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Guthur 4578 days ago
We do digital optimization

The modelling is done in MatLab but the automated experimentation platform is all CL.

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