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Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)

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372 points Eric_WVGG | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 13:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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dahart ◴[16 Oct 24 15:21 UTC] No.41860159[source]▶
> Why is most AI work done in Lisp?

That’s changed, of course, but it remained true for at least another 15 or 20 years after this article was written and then changed rather quickly, perhaps cemented with deep neural networks and GPUs.

Other than running the emacs ecosystem, what else is Lisp being used for commonly these days?

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1. sourcepluck ◴[16 Oct 24 16:44 UTC] No.41861146[source]▶
I think personally that Coalton and the stuff its built on is crazy cool. Coalton is a little library you add to your Lisp, but, to quote the third link here: "In terms of its type system, Coalton’s closest cousin is Haskell." So Lisp's dynamism with all sorts of advanced typing.

QVM, a Quantum Virtual Machine https://github.com/quil-lang/qvm

Quilc, an "advanced optimizing compiler" for Quil https://github.com/quil-lang/quilc

Coalton, "a statically typed functional programming language built with Common Lisp." https://coalton-lang.github.io/20211010-introducing-coalton/