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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Feb 2, 2011 · Often Lisp users develop embedded languages and to make that a bit easier, the Common Lisp standard tries to keep character usage down to a minimum and also provides …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Jul 29, 2016 · You can infer the meaning of these functions by parsing their name: between the first letter ('c') and the last ('r'), a 'a' means "the car of" and a 'd' means "the cdr of". So: cadr is …