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 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 …
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'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 …
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) …
Difference between `set`, `setq`, and `setf` in Common Lisp?
May 15, 2009 · Originally, in Lisp, there were no lexical variables -- only dynamic ones. And there was no SETQ or SETF, just the SET function. What is now written as:
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).
LET versus LET* in Common Lisp - Stack Overflow
A Lisp compiler can use a devilish trick to implement let* by just making a few tweaks to the compilation strategy for let. To compile let*, we can allocate a single environment for all the bindings (a move …
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 …
What characterizes a Lisp dialect? - Stack Overflow
Nov 25, 2017 · Do you consider e.g. Scheme a language or a dialect? How about Common Lisp? What about Lisp-like "languages"? How about a language that uses all the properties of List except the …