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A community for the Lisp family of programming languages.

Lisp (historically LISP) is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language. Only Fortran is older, by one year.

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History of Lisp - John McCarthy's history of 12 February 1979.
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What type of problems do you solve using Lisp? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by cadar@lemmy.ml to c/lisp@lemmy.ml

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Hello! Let us have another Friday social topic.

What type of problems do you solve using Lisp? Please share these details while answering:

Which dialect of Lisp do you use?
What problems do you solve?
Why do you choose Lisp to solve these problems?

I have a feeling that this thread might get inundated with too many Emacs Lisp posts about solving personal productivity problems. That's fine. But I suggest posting stuff about other dialects of Lisp too. The more dialects of Lisp (CL, Clojure, Racket, etc.) are discussed here, the better! We want to have a good variety of answers on this thread.

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[–] jaredj@emacs.ch 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Ramin_HAL9001 @cadar if you are doing numeric things, you may wish also to try clasp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdXeRBbgDM&pp=ygUKY2xhc3AgbGlzcA%3D%3D

[–] Ramin_HAL9001@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh wow, I had seen this presentation back when it first came out in 2018 and had forgotten about it! Thanks for reminding me!

[–] jaredj@emacs.ch 3 points 1 year ago

@Ramin_HAL9001 I feel like they have made less presentations of late, but the repo commits say that they are still working on it