Lisp

Peter Cooper has a wee little post on Lisp and how much he likes it.

I can only second that even if I'm far from being a coder - I'm only being appreciative of what it has allowed us to do!

Thingamy is now entirely done in Common Lisp, after having basked in a few other development environments in it's early days :)

Given the nature of the system and the way we go forward - "no way we can plan for all, better build so we can face anything" - then, well, CL has so far been the best of friends.

(Dunno know why I proclaim it though, hope is that most future competitors stick to more limiting environments ;) )

Comments

[Peter Cooper]

Thanks for the mention. I don't know if you're subscribed to my blog or not, but I'm honoured that you've linked to it. I've been keeping an eye on Thingamy for quite a while now and it seems like you guys are doing some great work.

[sig]

But of course I subscribe Peter!

And if you look aaaall the way on the bottom of the thingamy.com site you will see "Feed by feeddigest.com, thanks Peter!" :D

Being more of a geek-in-perpetual-training but mostly a suit I find CL quite amazing in it's ways. The progammable program language, have to love it!

[Ric]

Sig - have you seen Paul Graham's take on Lisp? (http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html) - he considers the use of Lisp as a competitive advantage for a software developer ...

[sig]

Ric, I think you nailed the source of our inspiration when we decided to move to CL - if my memory is not too spotty :)

Another thing that clinched it, with my very simple-geek-in-training-mind was the alignement between Lisp and our philosophy/architecture/whatever. Kind of important that I would say...

In essence the same argument when we decided to build our own OODB - total alignement all the way from philosophy to code :)

(yeah, dime-a-dozen-philosophy that, but why not... hehe)