Software Development magazine has a hard-hitting news blurb on the fact that Lisp still exists, based on running into some Franz people at a Software Development conference.
Wu listed a slew of commercial applications based on Common Lisp (CL) in such diverse domains as gaming, energy and manufacturing. Nintendo's Super Mario 64 and Naughty Dog's (now part of Sony Entertainment) blockbuster games Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy are all built in CL, along with advisory systems for nuclear power plants, chemical plants, steelworks and others. It was used in the automatic redesign of the entire airframe of the new Boeing 777, as well as in audit planning systems. The scheduling system behind the amazingly successful Hubble telescope is also written in CL, as are the scheduling systems for major airports such as Heathrow and Atlanta, and the logistics system deployed during the first Gulf War. CL is preferred by many complex bioinformatics applications, such as SRI's EcoCyc, which encodes and displays the entire metabolic pathways of the E. coli bacteria, as well as Harvard Children's Hospital Informatics Program's SNPper, which aids scientists in analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms.
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Posted by jjwiseman at June 10, 2004 02:28 PMFor name and password, try cyberpunk and cyberpunk. It worked here, and it works at a lot of site. cypherpunk works at some. test/test works at some.
Posted by: Alain Roy on June 11, 2004 08:42 AMThe same blurb is also in the latest print version of SD Magazine, complete with pictures of Franz employees wearing the (got-lisp-p) t-shirts, and more importantly a "Lisp Lives" on the top banner. I got my subscription copy, it may not be on the newsstands yet.
Posted by: Ralph Richard Cook on June 11, 2004 01:14 PM