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mratsim on June 29, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Better Geometry Through Graph Theory (2018)

Companies have been using Lisp to accelerate game development with a scripting language in AA game.

Making a game is a hard problem.

See Lisp on Playstation 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp

heavenlyblue on June 29, 2020 [–]

But nobody big enough uses Lisp to script games anymore.

whatshisface on June 29, 2020 | | [–]

List didn't fall out of practical use because it's bad, it fell out of practical use because its successors were better.

LandR on June 29, 2020 | | [–]

Dont Naughty Dog still use some type of lisp for their scripting?

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