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Lisp (historically LISP) is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language. Only Fortran is older, by one year.

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What type of problems do you solve using Lisp? (lemmy.ml)

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Hello! Let us have another Friday social topic.

What type of problems do you solve using Lisp? Please share these details while answering:

Which dialect of Lisp do you use?
What problems do you solve?
Why do you choose Lisp to solve these problems?

I have a feeling that this thread might get inundated with too many Emacs Lisp posts about solving personal productivity problems. That's fine. But I suggest posting stuff about other dialects of Lisp too. The more dialects of Lisp (CL, Clojure, Racket, etc.) are discussed here, the better! We want to have a good variety of answers on this thread.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@cadar

in my case the answer is long and winding.

I started by embedding Guile Scheme into my game engine, because I wanted to make a game, and I ended up with this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4QVE6JjmO0

(then Guile developers changed some APIs and so it no longer compiles)

But I have used Guile a lot in Emacs via Geiser to do various small things, such as this:

https://www.quora.com/For-what-types-of-problems-is-functional-programming-better-than-object-oriented-programming/answer/Panicz-Godek

The macros and functions that I've accumulated along the way were eventually gathered into one module that I called (grand scheme):

https://github.com/plande/grand-scheme

Later on, while still trying to make a game, I concluded that the medium of text isn't expressive enough, and that I would like to be able to write some pieces of my program (like finite state machines) in visual notation, so I ended up developing GRASP, The Graphical Scheme Programming environment, which currently looks like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN8Fy5xTXeQ

and it also works on Android

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J9YNBxPP_wU

(which is why I chose Kawa Scheme to implement it)