What are some examples of LISP being used in production, outside of AI and academia? [duplicate]

Answer 1

The sawfish window manager which used to be included in Gnome was written in a LISP dialect.

Answer 2

Paul Graham formed a startup company called ViaWeb in the 90's to allow users to create online webshops without any programming experience. This company was then bought out by Yahoo! to create Yahoo! Stores. Paul attributed the companys success to LISP. See his essay, Beating the Averages.

He is also the creator of a LISP dialect, arc. Arc is the implementation language for the popular website Hacker News

Answer 3

There are a number (6-12 at least) of small startups deploying webapps today. I'm running an open source community platform for rare disease research at www.lamsight.org.

Also see InspireData (http://www.inspiration.com/InspireData). You can download a great demo. Beautiful app using OpenGL (I believe) for the multi-platform GUI.

Answer 4

One example of where Lisp is widely used and useful is in the form of AutoLISP or Visual LISP that are used to program AutoCAD and its verticals.

Answer 5

You can find lists of programs written in LISP here and here. You could also do a search on sourceforge.

Answer 6

I believe some of the earlier Yahoo shops stuff was in LISP. It was written by Paul Graham and company and then bought out by Yahoo. But I think Yahoo has since rewritten it in another language. He wrote an essay about it.