Lisp is used worlwide to develop and deliver advanced software
across a wide range of hardware platforms in such areas as
high-end mechanical and electrical CAD, scheduling and process
control, knowledge-based and expert systems, sophisticated
telephone switching, workflow, complex Web applications, design
automation systems, avionics software, deep space probes, and
power plant safety analysis systems.
Here are a few examples (Web Sites of Lisp providers show much
more).
Use of Lisp for research in biology
NASA Deep space 1
Remote Agent Experiment -- This experiment takes an
even bigger step toward spacecraft autonomy with onboard
computer software designed to make a wider variety of
decisions. It is capable of planning and executing many
onboard activities with only general direction from the
ground.
NASA ESL (Executive
Support Language) -- A language designed to support
the construction of reactive control mechanisms for
autonomous robots and spacecraft. ESL offers advanced
control constructs for managing interacting parallel
goal-and-event-driven processes. These control mechanisms
are integrated with a number of other useful feature
borrowed from SCL (rules and constraints), RAPS (memory
properties), and Prolog (backchaining inference). The
design of ESL is evolving. It is currently implemented as
an extension to a multi-threaded Common Lisp
SchemaText, Web
Authoring Technology -- provides an environment for
users to manage the entire web authoring process --
including authoring-in-the-large and
authoring-in-the-small as well as prototyping, revisions
and multi-platform production -- the application is
particularly well-suited for the design of large-scale
hypertext structures.
Advanced Micro Devices
-- Test Generator Software for Microprocessor Design
Verification.
France-Telecom/CNET
-- Transmission network management software.
Wisdom Technologies:
CRESUS
-- Cash management program which helps automate the
financial corporate treasury decision-making process.
See also Common
Lisp - Myths and legends.
