Lisp Community

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A community for the Lisp family of programming languages.

Lisp (historically LISP) is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language. Only Fortran is older, by one year.

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History of Lisp - John McCarthy's history of 12 February 1979.
History of LISP at the Computer Histroy Museum

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Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp (lem-project.github.io)

submitted 7 months ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/lisp@lemmy.ml

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

A little known fact that someone wrote emacs so it suits the "bloated manatee" name? No, that's something we would have blocked from our minds; and now I need to buy more jaegarmeister to do it again.