Using CL every day and making a living from it. On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 5:45 AM Rudi Araújo <rudi.ara...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 >> > -- My Best, Dave Cooper, david.cooper@gen.works genworks.com, gendl.org +1 248-330-2979
