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.

History

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

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Related communities (dialects) - TODO

founded 5 years ago

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The Landscape of Lisp (churchofturing.github.io)

submitted 2 weeks ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/lisp@lemmy.ml

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[–] bunitor 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

cool read

about scheme not really being a lisp, i think common lisp, cojure and scheme are all lisps, but they're very clearly different languages. it doesn't look like it for most people, but i think it's similar to romance versus chinese languages. to most people, mandarin and cantonese are "dialects of chinese", but they're farther apart than french and italian. due to eurocentrism, romance languages feel closer to us, making the differences more noticeable, while chinese languages feel more foreign, so the differences don't matter that much. we live in a c-like-centric world, so c, c++, and java will be considered completely different languages, while scheme and common lisp, which are way more different from each other than c and java, are seen as "dialects of the same language" just because they happen to use the same parens-oriented syntax

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I very much agree, it makes the most sense to think in terms of families of languages.