What's so great about Lisp? - Stack Overflow
Jan 10, 2010 · I 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 …
What is lisp used for today and where do you think it's going?
Lisp 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 …
lisp - What is an S-Expression - Stack Overflow
Oct 23, 2022 · Code in any language that amount to a value is an expression. Lisp code is just lists with elements, a fundmental datastructure in lisp, however the plan was to use a syntax (m-expressions) …
scheme - What's the best way to learn LISP? - Stack Overflow
Ansi 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 …
When to use ' (or quote) in Lisp? - Stack Overflow
Sep 5, 2017 · Lisp 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 …
Newest 'lisp' Questions - Stack Overflow
Dec 9, 2025 · So 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).
Difference between `set`, `setq`, and `setf` in Common Lisp?
May 15, 2009 · If 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 …
lisp - Return list from a function - Stack Overflow
Oct 3, 2020 · I am new to LISP and was wondering how to return a list from a function. I need to write a function that takes a list as an input and outputs a list. If first and last elements are even numbers: re...
creating list of ascending numbers in Common Lisp [duplicate]
Apr 21, 2023 · I just want to make a simple program in c-lisp; take in a number and return a list of all the numbers from 0 to that number. I'm relatively new to lisp and I'm curious how someone more …
Using Lisp in C# - Stack Overflow
Mar 18, 2015 · Clojure 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 …