If Lisp Is So Great, Why Don't More People Use It?
Actually, a fair number of large companies do use Lisp for some serious work (you’ll find a long list of industrial Lisp projects at http://snipurl.com/e3lv9/). Other programming languages are constantly “borrowing” features of Lisp and presenting them as the latest and greatest ideas. Also, the Semantic Web, which many believe will play a big role in the future of the Web, uses many tools written in Lisp.
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The idea behind the Semantic Web is to create a set of protocols for websites to follow so that a computer can determine the “meaning” of information on a web page. This is done by annotating web pages with special metadata (usually in a format called Resource Description Framework, or RDF) ...
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