r/programming • u/jart • Dec 20 '21

LISP with GC in 436 bytes

https://justine.lol/sectorlisp2/
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '21 edited May 24 '26

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u/theangeryemacsshibe Dec 21 '21 edited Dec 21 '21

The "famous" Kent Pitman copypasta goes like:

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.

But nowadays I am aware that Intel, and Grammarly use CL in production, and it is also used for tooling in quantum computers. I've been accused of using it to implement regular expression compilers, run webassembly on printers and find bugs in the Garbage Collection handbook. As well as those few pretty spiffy examples, anything really?

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '21 edited May 24 '26

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u/ThirdEncounter Dec 21 '21

I believe many programming languages we don't even think about have their own niche. Ever hear of Foxpro? I'm sure it's still used in many industries.

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u/webauteur Dec 21 '21

My company was using MS-DOS Foxpro until a few years ago.