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Any Lisp programmers here? I recently encountered it at work, and was very impressed with what a co-worker of mine did with it. I'm fascinated by its apparent underdog status, because there seem to be so many accounts of software teams delivering a project on time, under budget and with a small number of people. So, I'm learning it now. Of course, my nes game is still top priority until I finish it, but I'll be learning Lisp on the side.

I used OCaml once for a class, but never went beyond that for functional programming.

I've never used Common Lisp, but I took two quarters of Scheme in college. (What else did I do with Scheme?) My Python shows some of the influence of Scheme; I'm more likely to use list comprehensions like [expr for x in ls if condition] which is a lot like what Lisp-style languages call "map" and "filter".

No, I avoid LISP like the plague.

I programmed my fair share of LISP in school (Allegro CommonLisp). Here's a little something I wrote at the time while taking an AI class: http://jiggawatt.org/badc0de/ants.cl
It might not be that great of an example since it doesn't make much use of functional programming concepts.

I also started writing a NES emulator in CommonLisp back in 2003 or 2004. After writing most of the 6502 core and some of the memory handling I abandoned the project though.

Personally I don't think I'd use LISP for anything today. It may be useful for some very specific purposes, but I find it unpractical for pretty much everything I ever do.

I've been meaning to learn LISP for some time but never really have the time for it. :S