From shriram Mon May 1 12:25:13 1995 Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 12:25:12 -0500 From: shriram (Shriram Krishnamurthi) To: matthias Subject: another one Organization: Computer Science, Rice University > Path: rice!newsfeed.rice.edu!oitnews.harvard.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!news2.near.net!info-server.bbn.com!news > From: Clint Hyde > Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp > Subject: RE: What is LISP mostly used for ? > Date: 1 May 1995 16:51:56 GMT > Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman Inc. > Lines: 14 > Message-ID: <3o33jc$mpm@info-server.bbn.com> > NNTP-Posting-Host: exploder.bbn.com > In-reply-to: the project I've been doing the last 18 months is a simulator which includes allowing the user to define simulation object classes on the fly, dynamically load those classes and methods written on them, insert code fragments into other portions of the simulator which handle predefined events and execute those code-frags...construct new screen/UI gadgets and methods, also to be loaded dynamically during runtime, to construct various simulation models and interact with them. -- clint ps. this would all be pretty darn tricky in another language.