• If you understand how compilers work, what’s really going on is not so much that Lisp has a strange syntax as that Lisp has no syntax.
  • Build reusable and extensible class hierarchies using the Common Lisp Object System.
  • Jump to navigation Jump to search. Lisp (historically LISP) is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive...
  • On Lisp is a comprehensive study of advanced Lisp techniques, with bottom-up programming as the unifying theme.
  • In this article, we’ll talk about a fairly limited form of Lisp which only has a handful of builtin functions.
  • Whether you love or hate its design philosophies, Lisp is an interesting glimpse at the past and, thanks to Clojure and Guile, into the future.
  • Contents • Build Your Own Lisp. Chapter 1 • Introduction.
  • Note: The ' in list statement is called the quote operator, and tells Lisp that the input is a list, and not to interpret it as a function.