Whats so great about Lisp? - Stack Overflow I don't know enough Lisp to say whether it's good or bad It seems like everyone who has used Lisp loves it, yet the most popular languages these days are descended from C So what is it about Lis
What is lisp used for today and where do you think its going? Lisp is used in many applications, but mostly not the way CS students learn it They use Lisp for basic CS concepts Real Lisp software often looks different More macros, more object-oriented, more imperative, lots of low-level stuff,
When to use (or quote) in Lisp? - Stack Overflow Lisp symbols can double both as their values, and markers where you in other languages would have used strings, such as keys to hash tables This is where quote comes in Say you want to plot resource allocations from a Python application, but rather do the plotting in Lisp Have your Python app do something like this:
scheme - Whats the best way to learn LISP? - Stack Overflow Ansi Common Lisp by Paul Graham is a good book I think it might be out of print, so your best bet to get it via Amazon I got the book for a "Natural Language Processing" class I took my sophomore year in college We had to write the programing projects in LISP, and so I needed to learn Lisp quickly The book helped me quite a bit
Newest lisp Questions - Stack Overflow So in Lisp Scheme, there are these 'symbols', which are basically, if I understand correctly, and correct me if I'm wrong, references to variables (not their values)
Difference between `set`, `setq`, and `setf` in Common Lisp? If SET and SETQ are to be booted from a Common Lisp successor, they will have to get some replacement Their use in high-level code is limited, but low-level code (for example, the code SETF is implemented in) needs them
What makes Lisp macros so special? - Stack Overflow But Lisp is different Lisp macros do have access to the parser, and it is a really simple parser A Lisp macro is not handed a string, but a preparsed piece of source code in the form of a list, because the source of a Lisp program is not a string; it is a list And Lisp programs are really good at taking apart lists and putting them back
syntax - What does # mean in LISP - Stack Overflow Often Lisp users develop embedded languages and to make that a bit easier, the Common Lisp standard tries to keep character usage down to a minimum and also provides the mechanism of macro characters and dispatch macro characters