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The name is an [Acronym] for __Lis__t __P__rocessing and denotes a family of [ProgrammingLanguage]s.

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!!Dialects
* [CommonLisp], standardised, heavy-duty Lisp.
* [Scheme], elegant intellectual Lisp.
* [Elisp], the scripting language for [Emacs]

!!Interesting Links
* [Online LISP tutorial|http://apsymac33.uni-trier.de:8080/Lisp-Course]
* http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.html -- Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine (Part I), the original paper discussing [LISP].

The secret to reading Lisp is look at the indenting. You will go mad if you count the brackets. %%% The secret to writing Lisp is to always use an editor that autoindents Lisp code and highlights matching brackets for you. [Emacs] does this.

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