[chicago-lisp] What lisp based applications do people use?

[Damien Kick]

On Dec 9, 2006, at 16:28, Corey Sweeney wrote:

> Hey, I was wondering, what lisp extensible applications do people use?
>
> Ones that I use, that I can think of right away are:
> text editor               - emacs          - (uses  emacs lisp)

Yeah, GNU Emacs or XEmacs and SLIME.

> What other lisp extensible apps does everyone use?

I have used Edi Wietz's Regex Coach, actually, to help me debug  
complicated regular expressions.  It is actually really cool to use  
it for that.  If one doesn't understand why a particular regular  
expression isn't matching in a way that one expects, one can just  
start typing the regular expression, and watch as what does match is  
highlighted.  As soon as things are no longer being highlighted as  
one wants, it's usually pretty obvious what went wrong.  But Regex  
Coach isn't extensible, so that doesn't really count, I suppose.

I personally tend to use lisp mostly as a programming language.  As  
most of the time I spend coding is devoted to work, and the product  
on which I work doesn't use lisp, I don't get to spend a whole lot of  
time programming in lisp.  However, I do find excuses to use it.  For  
example, I have recently written a very simplistic telnet-stream and  
my own anemic version (but it does do what I need to get done) of Don  
Libe's Expect (because I don't much like Tcl) to automate remote  
software installations.