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Never been a lisp user, so don't take me as too dense while reading this. However;
I know there are several variants of the language in existence, at least one which will keep it alive commercially for a while longer (AutoLisp, VisualLisp - pretty big support from Autodesk)... But I don't meet everyday people using it. So if you could shed some light on the matter:
And what do you believe its future will be?.. Will it become just another support language in few apps, or is it going somewhere?
Also, apart from "an editor whose name shall not be spoken";
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LISP, an acronym for list processing, is a programming language that was designed for easy manipulation of data strings. Developed in 1959 by John McCarthy, it is a commonly used language for artificial intelligence (AI) programming. It is one of the oldest programming languages still in relatively wide use.
Lisp empowers programmers to write faster programs faster. An empirical study shows that when programmers tackle the same problems in Lisp, C/C ++ and Java, that the Lisp programs are smaller (and therefore easier to maintain), take less time to develop and run faster.
One of the old languages, LISP, has lost its fame and started its journey to death. The language is being rarely used by developers these days. LISP is a language of fully parenthesised prefix notation and is the second oldest high-level programming language, developed in 1960.
Lisp is used for AI because it supports the implementation of software that computes with symbols very well. Symbols, symbolic expressions and computing with those is at the core of Lisp.
The Lisp dialect Clojure seems to be growing in popularity - you might ask out at http://clojure.org/ in one of the forums to see what real-world apps people are building with it.
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