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The name is an [Acronym] for __Lis__t __P__rocessor. It is the canonical FunctionalProgrammingLanguage. EdsgerWybeDijkstra [approves | http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/IMMD8/Services/SchemeTeach/Pages/ch1/sec3_42.html] of it. 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 such as [Emacs] that autoindents [LISP] code and highlights matching brackets for you. The name [LISP] has really come to denote a family of [ProgrammingLanguage]s in practice: ; [CommonLisp] : Standardised, heavy-duty Lisp - "the most thorough programming language in the universe". ; [Scheme] : Elegant intellectual Lisp. Coding acrobats do their backflips here. ; [Elisp] : The scripting language controls every aspect of [Emacs]. !!Interesting Links * QuickLispTutorial * [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]. ----- CategoryProgrammingLanguages, CategoryFunctionalProgrammingLanguages
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