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by Mikeb85 4577 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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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

We do digital optimization

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