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Besides viaweb (aka Yahoo Store), are there any major commercial applications or websites written in this language?

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Depends what you count as major.

I like that the child ids are keyed with "kids"; but was disappointed that the parent id isn't keyed with "mom".

Orbitz has used it for awhile. See http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html. I found over 50 companies that also use it. http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/lisp-companies/

http://wigflip.com is probably the best-known and highest-traffic Lisp success story!

ITA, InspireData, PWGL, Viaweb, news.yc, reddit (initially), ...

Emacs. It uses C as a base but the rest of it is all Emacs-Lisp.

cleartrip.com

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2491#comment-37479

I think AutoCAD is written in Lisp.

I like that, Lisp used to make something used to make something.

I think http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoLISP is what you're thinking of. I doubt AutoCAD itself is written in Lisp.

It actually was originally written in Lisp, and AutoLisp is still used to interface with it. (This is how I started learning Lisp in the first place, to create 3d models of designs with a little Lisp help.)

Here's a quote from related email discussion (Jan. 2009):

"Here's an indisputably real-world example: AutoCAD. Most of it is written in a customized LISP; the C part is the LISP interpreter core." -- ERS

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