Vsevolod Dyomkin has another great entry in his series of interviews with Lisp hackers over at Lisp, The Universe and Everything. This time it’s with Marc Battyani, a Lisp hacker and entrepreneur whose company, NovaSparks, builds ultra-low-latency FPGA-based supercomputers for the financial industry. That might not seem like fertile ground for Lisp but it is.
Besides its expected use in prototyping, testing, and experimenting with algorithms, Battyani uses Lisp to build domain specific languages that compile to VHDL to program the FPGAs. This is pretty neat stuff and Battyani gives a nice overview of it.
This is a good interview and well worth your time if you’re a Common Lisp programmer or interested in being one. It’s a fairly short read so it’s a perfect companion to your morning cup of coffee.