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Took me wayyy to long to realize that this is not for people who inspect buildings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_inspection

I was excited to learn how building inspectors were using Common Lisp!

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I knew it wasn't for inspectors of physical buildings (though that took a minute to accept; I thought it might be a joke), but I could not figure out what kind of buildings it would be. Was it some lisp thing I hadn't heard of? I've been coming back to these comments waiting for someone to explain and it finally hit me: it's for the building of inspectors. Language is weird.

My brain went to the same place. There was just recently a post on Common Lisp being used in a project to aid in mining tunnel evacuations, so, it kinda fit?

Yup, me too. Actually I needed this comment for it to click, I was reading the src looking for code that might have something to do with beams and buildings.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

I really admired it as a passion project and was a little bit let down by mundane reality.

But then I thought, that’s still pretty cool and I went word tripping for free.

Building inspectors? The guys who complain when you move your toilet 2 feet to the left from where it was on your plan? Those guys use Java 1.0.

I would have figured INTERCAL.

Oh me too. I was hoping for an implementation example of a nice neat little expert system. Maybe a sort of checklist-on-steroids application.

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