Comments on: Lisp Hackers Hit Another Startup Homerun

By: Jaba Adams

Jaba Adams — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:52:20 +0000

GOOL was used on Crash Bandicoot, and was a precursor to GOAL, which was used on Jak and Daxter, IIRC.

There was an article on GOOL back in the 1997(?) Game Developer's Conference Proceedings.

Adam Bossy — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:02:01 +0000

The previous post didn’t copy correctly at all.

Adam Bossy — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:58:31 +0000

marco — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:04:23 +0000

It seems Flektor had sponsored some patch to clsql (http://clsql.b9.com/changelog.html), so I guess they use Lisp.

Joel Reymont — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:30:16 +0000

Flektor’s backend is written in Rails, not Lisp. I can take a wee bit of credit for that.

count0 — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:08:32 +0000

From their job recruiting page, I guess they use ruby and c++…at least.

A Lisp hacker — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:44:42 +0000

Their language was called GOAL (not GOOL), and they by design eschewed garbage collection.

Peter Seibel — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:21:53 +0000

Try searching for GOAL, not GOOL.