I've used CL for some small scripting stuff here at work, for example
going through all C/C++ source code and adding custom profiling/printing
function calls based on what the name of the functions are (I guess
ad-hoc AOP).
It was able to easy add them (one click), and remove them (another click).
So while I'm working I'm having these things turned ON, and right before
check-in, I'm disabling them (in a team of 100+ people, I guess not
everybody would be interested in my profiling code).
Francogrex wrote:
> This is a bit of a rant. Recently at work we had to quickly tackle a
> problem that involved more or less complex data analysis. Since I've
> been learning common lisp for a little while now, I decided to give it
> a try in lisp and honest to god, I could solve it with a little prog
> within a few hours. I showed the results to the boss in a meeting but
> some of my collegues started jumping up and down saying that Lisp is
> not a validated system in our firm and we'll have to do it in X
> software (commercial name omitted to avoid slander) because X is great
> it's validated and controlled etc...the boss unfortunately agreed with
> them. It's been 2 weeks today that they've been mucking around in X
> and haven't found anything that comes close to what I wrote in lisp...
> meanwhile we're losing time and money. This is very frustrating to me
> and remind me of the article Paul Graham wrote about Lisp and how it
> is not accepted by some.