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Lisp (or LISP) is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized syntax. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today; only Fortran is older. Like Fortran, Lisp has changed a great deal since its early days, and a number of dialects have existed over its history. Today, the most widely known general-purpose Lisp dialects are Common Lisp and Scheme. Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, influenced by the notation of Alonzo Church's lambda calculus. It quickly became the favored programming language for artificial intelligence (AI) research. As one of the earliest programming languages, Lisp pioneered many ideas in computer science, including tree data structures, automatic storage management, dynamic typing, and the self-hosting compiler. The name LISP derives from "LISt Processing". Linked lists are one of Lisp languages' major data structures, and Lisp source code is itself made up of lists. As a result, Lisp programs can manipulate source code as a data structure, giving rise to the macro systems that allow programmers to create new syntax or even new domain-specific programming languages embedded in Lisp. The interchangeability of code and data also gives Lisp its instantly recognizable syntax. All program code is written as s-expressions, or parenthesized lists. A function call or syntactic form is written as a list with the function or operator's name first, and the arguments following; for instance, a function f that takes three arguments might be called using From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License What are LISP ,SCHEME and PYTHON?Are they programming languages? Q. Are they similar to c,c++ and java.Are they new ones or outdated ones.What about PERL? Asked by pooni - Fri Oct 9 23:39:25 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. Yes, they're indeed programming languages. Python is pretty new comparing to the other two and PERL. One common characteristic of them all is they're primarily used (except Python even though it's can be done too) to program artificial intelligence (A.I) Answered by minh - Fri Oct 9 23:44:05 2009 Which programming language(s) should I consider learning? Q. I'm seriously considering teaching myself a programming language in my free time (hence as a hobby) with the purpose of acquiring more pc skills and potentially taking it further later on. I have previously dabbled into Python, Perl, some Ruby and Haskell, and, more recently, Common Lisp. I am wondering which language may make a good first choice? My aim is not to write operating systems or to write advanced networking apps and I'm not interested in languages that are primarily used for web development, server-side scripting or UNIX system administration (thus no C/C++ - at least, not for now). I'd just like to learn a language that is powerful yet newbie-friendly and enables me to learn the basics to develop my own applications; in short:… [cont.] Asked by gigunin78 - Wed Oct 29 11:26:39 2008 - - 12 Answers - 0 Comments A. If you wanted to go Windows exclusive I would highly recommend Microsoft Visual C#. Visual C# Express Edition is free to anyone and provides a well featured version of C# and Visual Studio.NET. Microsoft provides this for free to all Windows users. Microsoft even provides free training videos. If you want to go cross-platform then Java would be the best language to learn. If you want to learn Java I recommend starting with JDK available from Sun Microsystems website. Then graduate up to the NetBeans IDE which is an excellent open source, full featured IDE used by many professionals. Since you have some past experience programming, learning from a book shouldn't be a problem. I recommend Deitel & Assoicates: Java: How to Program… [cont.] Answered by Jdeats - Wed Oct 29 12:03:49 2008 Common Lisp Compiler?
Q. I'm new to common lisp, and I would like to learn more. I have multiple interpreters working, CLISP, LispWorks, and another one. I can t figure out how to compile list programs though. It seems I read somewhere that lisp auto compiles as you write it, but I m not sure. The ideal outcome would be some .exe, .out, or equivalent. How do you make a program that will work on someone s computer that doesn t have lisp? Can it be compiled into assembly/machine language? It seems like I saw a lisp to .exe converter, but I don t know if that is THE WAY to make lisp programs. Or does a lisp interpreter need to be installed on every system that wants to run my program? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Asked by deth - Fri Apr 27 22:27:25 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. Hi, I'm a big fan of Lisp, so feel free to message me if you have further questions. Generally, yes - the Lisp system compiles as you go. CLISP compiles Common Lisp code to a bytecode, similar to the way Java is compiled to Java byte code. LispWorks compiles to the native x86 machine code. With CLISP, you can compile a file to create a .fas file (which contains the bytecode) and then run it: clisp -c filename.lisp clisp filename.fas But that is not too bad because you can just include clisp.exe with a memory dump and a .bat file that says "clisp.exe -M myprogram.mem" LispWorks provides a way to create a .exe file but not in the free version you're probably using. But I'm not sure if there is a way to do the same with CLISP -… [cont.] Answered by Harold L - Sat Apr 28 15:32:16 2007 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Lisp programming language" Lisp is a family of computer programming languages based on formal functional calculus. Lisp (for "List Processing Language") stores and manipulates programs in the same manner as any other data, making it well suited for "meta-programming" applications. One of the oldest "high level" programming languages (second only to Fortran), Lisp continues to be popular in the field of artificial intelligence down to the present day. Contents
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