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 …
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 …
What makes Lisp macros so special? - Stack Overflow
Nov 6, 2008 · But 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 …
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) …
artificial intelligence - Why is Lisp used for AI? - Stack Overflow
Common Lisp was never intended to be the AI language, it was created to be used in the industry. For research, Scheme is usually used. And never, ever judge a language by its age - it just isn't …
Why should I learn Lisp? [closed] - Stack Overflow
Jan 17, 2017 · I really feel that I should learn Lisp and there are plenty of good resources out there to help me do it. I'm not put off by the complicated syntax, but where in "traditional commercial …
Newest 'lisp' Questions - Stack Overflow
[lisp] The name Lisp derives from "LISt Processing". Sign up to watch this tag and see more personalized content Watch tag Go to Wiki 7,048 questions Newest Active
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 …
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 …