From: Bradley J Lucier
Subject: Homework-on-the-web application in Scheme
Date: 
Message-ID: <db49dk$p57@arthur.cs.purdue.edu>
There are regular requests in c.l.s and c.l.l for examples of
commercial-quality applications built with Lisp or Scheme.

In the Purdue University Mathematics Department newsletter for Summer 2005
there is a short article describing for laymen a homework-on-the-web
system I wrote using Gambit-C, a Scheme system, and Maple.  I can't claim
that it's commercial (the interface isn't polished enough) but it supports
well over 2,000,000 requests from 1200 students a year, with most of these
requests coming in in the two hours before each assignment is due ;-).
(Over 40,000 per assignment in the spring semester with 800 students.)
It stays up, it takes up very little resources, I haven't lost any data,
and it is correct.  

And it was built by one faculty member and two students part-time over three
years.  (I remark about this because of the size of the teams the publishers
I talk to maintain in Moscow and Bangalore and Iowa and ... to develop their
own systems.)

Marc Feeley helped in crucial places to make this possible.

The link is

http://www.math.purdue.edu/about/purview/summer2005.pdf

Brad Lucier