I saw lot of enthusiasm for lisp related stuff. Also I am very much influenced by PG's essays. So was curious about how many of us use lisp for our startup and what tools do you use for development.
I use Scheme (Bigloo, PLT/mzscheme) all the time, even if the project isn't in Scheme itself. If I hit a point where I know I don't fully understand the problem, I'll usually break out my Scheme stuff play around until I have a better grasp, and then redo it in whatever language/platform the project is in (right now, usually JavaScript.)<p>I usually use an emacs cvs snapshot, with paredit and geiser <a href="http://git.hacks-galore.org/gitweb/jao?p=geiser.git;a=summary" rel="nofollow">http://git.hacks-galore.org/gitweb/jao?p=geiser.git;a=summar...</a>
I'm using Clojure for both my PhD thesis project as well as a musical live coding system. Coding in Vim with vimclojure. Yeah! It's a blast, and the Clojure community feels like the olden days of the Ruby community, but smarter.