18:24:03ZigPawwhat courses you are doing with Lisp? :)
18:24:05aethbuoyantair_: Some common uses for CL as mentioned on IRC are AI (the traditional place, but not as common these days), web programming, and games. It's also used in at least one tiling window manager (stumpwm).
18:24:47pjbbuoyantair_: well, if you want to be hired in my startup, knowing CL will help put your resume on top of the stack…
18:24:55beachbuoyantair_: Oh, Common Lisp is a general-purpose programming language. People here use it for various things, like writing compilers, editors, games, web sites, symbolic math programs, graphic user interfaces. You name it.
18:24:58aethbuoyantair_: One of the primary advantages of CL over the languages it most directly competes with (e.g. Python) is the performance of its most popular implementations (SBCL, CCL), which ahead-of-time compile to native code.
18:25:05ZigPawACTION is using it only for his pet projects.
18:25:28aethIt's also very, very easy to do things at compile time in Common Lisp.