http://www.bing.com:80/search?q=Lisp+Programming+Language+MessySearch resultshttp://www.bing.com:80/s/a/rsslogo.gifhttp://www.bing.com:80/search?q=Lisp+Programming+Language+MessyCopyright © 2026 Microsoft. All rights reserved. These XML results may not be used, reproduced or transmitted in any manner or for any purpose other than rendering Bing results within an RSS aggregator for your personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of these results requires express written permission from Microsoft Corporation. By accessing this web page or using these results in any manner whatsoever, you agree to be bound by the foregoing restrictions.https://stackoverflow.com/questions/398579/whats-the-best-way-to-learn-lispAnsi Common Lisp by Paul Graham is a good book. I think it might be out of print, so your best bet to get it via Amazon. I got the book for a "Natural Language Processing" class I took my sophomore year in college. We had to write the programing projects in LISP, and so I needed to learn Lisp quickly. The book helped me quite a bit.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:16:00 GMThttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/794450/what-is-lisp-used-for-today-and-where-do-you-think-its-goingLisp is used in many applications, but mostly not the way CS students learn it. They use Lisp for basic CS concepts. Real Lisp software often looks different. More macros, more object-oriented, more imperative, lots of low-level stuff, ...Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:26:00 GMThttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/2036244/whats-so-great-about-lispI don't know enough Lisp to say whether it's good or bad. It seems like everyone who has used Lisp loves it, yet the most popular languages these days are descended from C. So what is it about Lis...Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:50:00 GMThttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/267862/what-makes-lisp-macros-so-specialBut Lisp is different. Lisp macros do have access to the parser, and it is a really simple parser. A Lisp macro is not handed a string, but a preparsed piece of source code in the form of a list, because the source of a Lisp program is not a string; it is a list. And Lisp programs are really good at taking apart lists and putting them back ...Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:32:00 GMThttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/lisp?tab=NewestSo in Lisp/Scheme, there are these 'symbols', which are basically, if I understand correctly, and correct me if I'm wrong, references to variables (not their values).Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:20:00 GMThttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/70004/using-lisp-in-c-sharpClojure is a Lisp-1 that is compiled on-the-fly to Java bytecode, leading to very good runtime performance. You can use Clojure, and cross-compile it to a .NET assembly using IKVM 's ikvmc. Of course, when used in .NET, Clojure happily generates .NET IL, leading to the same kind of compiled-code performance you can expect when using it on a JVM.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:27:00 GMThttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/869529/difference-between-set-setq-and-setf-in-common-lispIf SET and SETQ are to be booted from a Common Lisp successor, they will have to get some replacement. Their use in high-level code is limited, but low-level code (for example, the code SETF is implemented in) needs them.Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:23:00 GMThttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/134887/when-to-use-or-quote-in-lispLisp symbols can double both as their values, and markers where you in other languages would have used strings, such as keys to hash tables. This is where quote comes in. Say you want to plot resource allocations from a Python application, but rather do the plotting in Lisp. Have your Python app do something like this:Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:12:00 GMThttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/450538/how-do-i-get-a-common-lisp-gui-in-windowsIt is a different dialect of LISP than the Common-Lisp I was using, but seems to have a lot of community support, and integrates with my Windows installation of Emacs either through SLIME or through the Inferior-Lisp interpreter.Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:49:00 GMThttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/15393797/lisp-splitting-input-into-separate-stringsLisp - Splitting Input into Separate Strings Asked 13 years ago Modified 2 years, 5 months ago Viewed 28k timesSat, 04 Apr 2026 23:30:00 GMT