Now that Christmas is over, I got a chance to update my Lisp Companies page. First of all, I want to thank all of the people that emailed me – I got a couple dozen recommendations and added a lot of companies to the list. The updated list is sorted by geography, with new grand totals of:

USA: 11
Canada: 10
Europe: 8
India: 2
Virtual/Unsure: 3

I’ve still got to go through the big lists at Paul Graham’s site, Franz and LispWorks success stories, and weitz.de. That should take me a long time and I think I’ll write some other posts in the meantime.

Thanks again to everyone who contributed!

After (too many) hours of combing the internet and my memory, web browsing, summarizing, and editing text in WordPress, I finally have my “Lisp Companies” page published. I got tired of hearing “Nobody uses Lisp” and “Yes they do, Lisp is awesome!” without actually seeing facts. So I decided to get to the bottom of it and see what’s out there. Here it is:

Lisp Companies

The initial list includes:

• 13 companies from single founder startups to several hundred people
• Lots of Common Lisp, but Scheme was definitely present
• 3 continents (North America, Europe, and Asia) and 5 countries

It’s a work in progress so please give comments and help fill it out!