Anarres

Well, another year is coming to a close. This has been a good year for me in terms of programming Lisp professionally. I became a Team Leader for a group of developers and we were charged with developing a new ocr system. We used several languages– right tool for the job mentality. My boss was so pleased with what we accomplished and the time-frame in which it took that I have now been given the task to design and replace a large legacy system. All of this success has been because I do not believe in one language for every task. I firmly believe in the right tool for the job. I also believe in rapid-prototyping. Following these beliefs has put me in the position that I can use Lisp in an enterprise I.T. setting. What have I been using Lisp for? I can’t give too many details at this point– but I can tell what packages I have been using or have created. I have wrapped FreeImage and OpenCV in the last month– I’ll be releasing them in the next month. I have also recently started looking at CLORB. I have gotten CLORB clients talking to omniORB python servents. I am also using wxcl. Right now I am working on a Name Utility that will list CORBA bindings in a wxcl gui. I will post the code on this site in about a week. Have a Happy New Year!