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

QuickLispTutorial

!!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]
* [Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine (Part I) |  http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.html], the original paper discussing [LISP].

The secret to reading [LISP] is to 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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