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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"><p dir="auto">I've been using Common Lisp ... pretty much since it was a thing. So, yes, that must be almost 30 years, starting on a Symbolics.</p>
<p dir="auto">And I've used it professionally pretty much that whole time, with occasional divergences to other languages for the odd project here and there.</p>
<p dir="auto">Mostly AI stuff, a lot of symbolic computing, but other stuff as well.</p>
<p dir="auto">Have a good weekend, all!</p>
<p dir="auto">On 8 May 2020, at 14:36, Burton Samograd wrote:</p>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><div id="3E9AE89C-DAE5-42CF-8F1C-D7602CEDC4A3"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks for all the great replies. Good to know you all.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve been a Lisper for about 15 years. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/burtonsamograd" class="">https://github.com/burtonsamograd</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://github" class="">https://github</a>.com/BusFactor1Inc<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Burton Samograd<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 8, 2020, at 10:15 AM, <a href="mailto:dbm@refined-audiometrics.com" class="">dbm@refined-audiometrics.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">I have been using CL now for about 30 years. Professionally and avocationally, I use it for signal and image processing, cryptography, market trading and risk modeling, machine and instrument control, and just general math modeling. <br class=""><br class="">Now, I guess, I am finally retired… so I support myself with Lisp and market trading. And, avocationally, I use it for music composition, sound processing, and astronomical image processing. <br class=""><br class="">I am an old Astrophysicist who started with Forth and found Lisp as its natural evolution to what Forth always wanted to be…<br class=""><br class="">- David McClain<br class="">Tucson, AZ, USA<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote>
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</blockquote><br><br><p dir="auto">Robert P. Goldman<br>
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