And there are several open-source implementations of the Lisp programming language for the JVM out there, ready to be explored. So what makes Lisp worth looking at?

Lisp is one of those programming languages that seems to keep taunting us for not learning it properly. It is still used for teaching functional languages today. [Adam McDaniel] has an obvious ...

Lisp (historically, LISP) is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized Polish prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the ...

Experienced programmers without Lisp exposure normally go into shock when looking at a Lisp program for the first time, but after a little work Lisp coding becomes natural to the point where other ...

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In an interesting mixture of old and new, it’s written in LISP! LISP (LISt Processing) is the second oldest high-level programming language that received wide-spread usage.

I know it's a dialect of Lisp, and does things the functional way, but is it different enough from both Lisp (its parent) and ML (its colleague functional-programming-wise) to be useful to learn?