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,
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)
Missionaries and Cannibals - LISP - Stack Overflow The well-known Missionaries and Cannibals problem is as follows: Three missionaries and three cannibals are on the east side of a river They have a boat which is big enough to carry at most two p
LET versus LET* in Common Lisp - Stack Overflow A Lisp compiler can use a devilish trick to implement let* by just making a few tweaks to the compilation strategy for let To compile let*, we can allocate a single environment for all the bindings (a move which would result in incorrect scoping in the interpreter) We leave that environment empty, and add it to the compile-time environment chain
Using Lisp in C# - Stack Overflow Clojure is a Lisp-1 that is compiled on-the-fly to Java bytecode, leading to very good runtime performance You can use Clojure, and cross-compile it to a NET assembly using IKVM 's ikvmc Of course, when used in NET, Clojure happily generates NET IL, leading to the same kind of compiled-code performance you can expect when using it on a JVM