Hi, Used CL professionally from 2008 to 2017, now working mostly with Java and a little bit of Perl (yes, Perl as in Perl).
Transitioning to Perl was hard, but after about a year I grew to have some respect for it. Moose is actually a pretty developer friendly OO framework, and it reminds me in many aspects of CLOS. Now Java... That has been a hard transition. Even with all the niceties they've been introducing since Java 8 (the Streams API for example), it's just a pain in the neck. Testing for example can be extremely painful, especially when working with legacy code with lots of anti-patterns (mocking and stubbing is a nightmare in some cases). And even with all the improvements to the language, it still encourages a great deal of verbosity. Anyway, I still hang on to Emacs and use Emacs Lisp occasionally for throwaway scripts. I do miss CL though. I wish there were more CL jobs going around. Cheers, r. On Wed, 13 May 2020, 08:40 Adrien Piérard, <axiopl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since everyone is doing it, I'll join the fray! > > Haven't used a Lisp professionally in forever. I did Scheme from undergrad > to grad school (with Dr Scheme and then Gambit), I used SISC to work on a > major retail website around 2006, and as far as Common Lisp is concerned, I > worked with Allegro CL in 2008 to do NLP in for English and Japanese. I > still fire up SBCL/quicklisp for hobby projects. > > Cheers, > > P! > > On Sun, 10 May 2020 at 11:18, Nick Levine <n...@nicklevine.org> wrote: > >> Hi Alexandre. >> >> We process text (in bulk), mostly news but from other sources also, and >> we extract meaning from it. The more sophisticated this becomes, the >> greater our need to pull each sentence apart and see how it really ticks. >> “Parts of speech“ is an important stepping stone; “computational >> linguistics” is the broader study. >> >> - nick >> >> https://www.ravenpack.com/careers/computational-linguist >> >> https://www.ravenpack.com/careers/common-lisp-developer >> >> On 10 May 2020, at 13:35, Alexandre Rademaker <aradema...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> Hi Nick, >> >> Can you tell more about it? >> >> RavenPack implementing computational linguistics (mainly) in Allegro. >> >> >> Alexandre >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> >> > > -- > Français, English, 日本語, 한국어, 中文 >
