The name is an Acronym for List Processing and denotes a family of ProgrammingLanguages.

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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://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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