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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.
History of LISP at the Computer Histroy Museum

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Parentheses are so special (lemmy.nz)

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

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[–] haroldstork@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Am I missing something?

[–] santiagopim@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

Well, i don't bother parentheses, in fact i don't see them when reading code. But they are some kind of special because 'palindroming' them is a bit 'counterintuitive' :)