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Edi Weitz  
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 More options Nov 3 2004, 6:31 pm
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Edi Weitz <spamt...@agharta.de>
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 00:31:33 +0100
Local: Wed, Nov 3 2004 6:31 pm
Subject: Re: Practical Lisp: What are you working on, really?
On 3 Nov 2004 13:03:41 -0800, tait.stev...@gmail.com (Tait Stevens) wrote:

> Any takers for the question "What are you doing in Lisp, right now?"

For money:

1. A web application which dynamically generates PDF, RTF, or HTML
   from XSL-FO templates. Data is filled in from a hierarchical
   database which is itself extended and modified on the fly by the
   templates when they're uploaded. We use TBNL/mod_lisp plus CL-WHO
   for the web app and CLSQL/PostgreSQL for backups. For XML parsing
   we prototyped with XMLS but will now switch to either CXML or
   Franz' new SAX parser. The conversion from XSL-FO to the
   afore-mentioned output formats is done with external Java tools.

2. Another web application which gathers data from surveys done by
   pharma companies and produces up-to-date graphical output of the
   current results for the client. The data is uploaded as CSV data
   and the graphical output can be modified by the guy who coordinates
   the surveys with a simple Lispy configuration file - he's not a
   programmer himself. These are static pages created by a cron job
   using CL-GD and CL-WHO.

3. Maintenance of a Windows app (done with LispWorks' CAPI) I wrote
   about a year ago. It is used by my client to assemble data from
   various websites and generates CSV output for MS Excel. It makes
   heavy use of CL-PPCRE to extract the relevant data from the various
   sites it encounters. (No, this is not used for unsolicited
   marketing.)

For fun:

4. A .NET layer for Common Lisp, currently for LispWorks. I've stopped
   working on it after I showed an initial prototype in Amsterdam but
   I'll continue real soon now... :)

Cheers,
Edi.

--

Lisp is not dead, it just smells funny.

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