PL Essay - Is LISP still relevant?

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It's symbolic computation features made writing code much easier than in FORTRAN or similar"},{"_id":"3895f88c60aa2b5df0000025","treeId":"36fb9347a097e9c75700000a","seq":1,"position":3,"parentId":"38956f79310523d9ec000030","content":"Automated theorem provers"},{"_id":"38956fc2310523d9ec000031","treeId":"36fb9347a097e9c75700000a","seq":1,"position":3,"parentId":null,"content":"Why did it become unpopular"},{"_id":"389571d7310523d9ec000036","treeId":"36fb9347a097e9c75700000a","seq":1,"position":1,"parentId":"38956fc2310523d9ec000031","content":"* A lot of funding from DARPA was cut due to insufficient progress"},{"_id":"389dd8aca51904bde500002b","treeId":"36fb9347a097e9c75700000a","seq":1,"position":1.5,"parentId":"38956fc2310523d9ec000031","content":"* Lisp was used as a dominant language in AI, and so when the claims of AI fell short, Lisp's reputation got damaged as well"},{"_id":"389572d2310523d9ec000038","treeId":"36fb9347a097e9c75700000a","seq":1,"position":2,"parentId":"38956fc2310523d9ec000031","content":"Slow compared to C, garbage collection is more wasteful than manually managing resources well"},{"_id":"389575fd310523d9ec00003b","treeId":"36fb9347a097e9c75700000a","seq":1,"position":3.25,"parentId":null,"content":"Advantages of LISP in modern society"},{"_id":"389dd3dda51904bde5000029","treeId":"36fb9347a097e9c75700000a","seq":1,"position":0.5,"parentId":"389575fd310523d9ec00003b","content":"Clojure is being used in industry at several high profile companies including Citigroup"},{"_id":"389dd80fa51904bde500002a","treeId":"36fb9347a097e9c75700000a","seq":1,"position":1,"parentId":"389dd3dda51904bde5000029","content":"http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Clojure+Success+Stories****"},{"_id":"389576a0310523d9ec00003c","treeId":"36fb9347a097e9c75700000a","seq":1,"position":1,"parentId":"389575fd310523d9ec00003b","content":"Functional leads to easier concurrency when you haven't got variables."},{"_id":"38957528310523d9ec00003a","treeId":"36fb9347a097e9c75700000a","seq":1,"position":3.5,"parentId":null,"content":"Conclusion"},{"_id":"3897ee5060aa2b5df0000027","treeId":"36fb9347a097e9c75700000a","seq":1,"position":1,"parentId":"38957528310523d9ec00003a","content":"Relevant in the way that it influenced a lot of functional languages today"},{"_id":"389dc27aa51904bde5000020","treeId":"36fb9347a097e9c75700000a","seq":1,"position":1.5,"parentId":"38957528310523d9ec00003a","content":"Although Viaweb was rewritten in Perl and C++"},{"_id":"389dce9ca51904bde5000022","treeId":"36fb9347a097e9c75700000a","seq":1,"position":1,"parentId":"389dc27aa51904bde5000020","content":"http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg02367.html"},{"_id":"3897ef7460aa2b5df0000029","treeId":"36fb9347a097e9c75700000a","seq":1,"position":2,"parentId":"38957528310523d9ec00003a","content":"Clojure is a Lisp that's trying to bring Lisp into the mainstream by integration with the JVM"},{"_id":"389dc2caa51904bde5000021","treeId":"36fb9347a097e9c75700000a","seq":1,"position":2.5,"parentId":"38957528310523d9ec00003a","content":"and MIT now teach 6.001 in Python"},{"_id":"389dd02ca51904bde5000025","treeId":"36fb9347a097e9c75700000a","seq":1,"position":1,"parentId":"389dc2caa51904bde5000021","content":"https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.lisp/Uod8C6bm8BY"},{"_id":"389dd071a51904bde5000027","treeId":"36fb9347a097e9c75700000a","seq":1,"position":3,"parentId":"38957528310523d9ec00003a","content":"People still hack on Emacs daily using Elisp"},{"_id":"389dd17ba51904bde5000028","treeId":"36fb9347a097e9c75700000a","seq":1,"position":4,"parentId":"38957528310523d9ec00003a","content":"Clojure has a bright future where concurrent programming is required."}],"tree":{"_id":"36fb9347a097e9c75700000a","name":"PL Essay - Is LISP still relevant?","publicUrl":"io"}}