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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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『Are Arrays Really Needed? My short answer would be "No".』 (picolisp.com)

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PicoLisp looks very opinionated to me. It is very interesting for me since it doesn't provide too many choices for beginners.

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[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Are arrays really needed?

Well, if you don't want anything to work anymore, you can remove them I guess lol. Because your entire OS is using them.