Lisp for Websites, or just Lisp in General

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Lisp for Websites, or just Lisp in General

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Anyone have experience using Lisp in conjunction with the web? If not, anyone have experience with Lisp in general? After reading Paul Graham's Hackers & Painters, I *oddly* feel the urge to play with it.
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Yeah! i have played with LISP before... believe me I haven't seen a language syntax as intimidating as LISP 8O :lol: everything is a function there... e.g.

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And here I was always thinking LISP is pronounced LITHP.
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patrikG wrote:And here I was always thinking LISP is pronounced LITHP.
yeah! it is LITHP: Lacks Imagination Thoroughly, Handle with Perseverance :P
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I'm familiar with the syntax and I don't think it's that intimidating... Well, if it is intimidating, it's at least intriguing also.

Why hasn't anyone done any web programming with LISP! Someone get neilsene in here, I bet he has.
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nigma wrote:I'm familiar with the syntax and I don't think it's that intimidating... Well, if it is intimidating, it's at least intriguing also.
Yeah! sure it is intriguing, and brain-racking too.. :lol:
nigma wrote:Why hasn't anyone done any web programming with LISP! Someone get neilsene in here, I bet he has.
I have done programming in LISP while using AutoCAD with my former employer. They had to automate building a big project's reports & plans which always took about a month to complete manually(using AutoCAD). After I completed this automation, they would do it in half an hour flat. I got 250% raise and a hearty applaud by boss. Boy, was I happy that day :D So sad their project was completed and they went off... :(
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Sounds like fun all around: programming in a new language, getting a 250% raise and applause from the boss, and making a process more efficient. Congrats.
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nigma wrote:Sounds like fun all around: programming in a new language, getting a 250% raise and applause from the boss, and making a process more efficient. Congrats.
I tell you it was really fun all around as you put it... but now I knida long for the days when I used to program nearly all different languages... now I'm kinda stuck to PHP (& ASP) in my current job :( I really enjoyed programming in Perl & Python... now I do enjoy facing new challenges in my job itself but its becoming kinda monotonous now :?
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