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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.

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

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Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp (lem-project.github.io)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Emacs is already 55% Lisp, but that just wasn’t good enough 😆

This apparently is for Steel Bank Common Lisp, which I’d never heard of.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

SBCL is one of the more popular runtimes for CL as far as I know. I think the big advantage with Lem is that CL is a much better language than Emacs Lisp which is like Js of Lisps. 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah… I was rooting for Guile Scheme to replace elisp, but that’s been stalled out like forever https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I was just talking about that with a friend the other day. I remembered it was a thing, and then I looked it up and looks like nothing's been happening with that in a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@davel @yogthos it seems to be a little known fact that Per Bothner, the author of Kawa Scheme, also developed JEmacs - a variant of Emacs that runs on the JVM.

(I haven't used it though, so I can't say if there's anything substantial missing from it)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

A little known fact that someone wrote emacs so it suits the "bloated manatee" name? No, that's something we would have blocked from our minds; and now I need to buy more jaegarmeister to do it again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought emacs was written in lisp?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Lisp is a family of languages, Emacs is written in Emacs Lisp which is very different from Common Lisp.