Hi

[Dave Cooper]

Using CL every day and making a living from it.

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 5:45 AM Rudi Araújo <rudi.araujo at 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, <axioplase at 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 <nick at 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 <arademaker at 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 at gen.works
genworks.com, gendl.org
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