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Scheme, created by Guy L. Steele and Gerald Jay Sussman, is the dialect used in SICP. | Scheme, created by Guy L. Steele and Gerald Jay Sussman, is the dialect used in SICP. | ||
Three of the most popular implementations are Chicken, GNU Guile, and Racket all of which include a well-designed C API, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_function_interface FFI]. | |||
=== Niche Lisps === | === Niche Lisps === | ||
Revision as of 11:28, 27 April 2014
Lisp is a programming language originally created by John McCarthy in 1958. Despite its age, it is still a popular choice for modern programmers. Lisp has proven itself flexible enough to evolve to meet the needs of modern programmers. Modern implementations often come "batteries-included", meaning that the programmer has access to powerful libraries for databases, regular expressions, networking, and more.
Lisp comes in different dialects, which are divided into different implementations. Three important dialects are Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, and Scheme.
Dialects
Common Lisp
Common Lisp was designed by Scott Fahlman, Richard P. Gabriel, David Moon, Guy L. Steele, and Dan Weinreb, and is described in CLTL2, as well as the Common Lisp Hyperspec.
Popular implementations include Steel Bank Common Lisp, GNU Clisp, ClozureCL, and ECL.
Emacs Lisp
Emacs Lisp is used to program and extend Emacs. Programmers who swear by Emacs should learn to use Emacs Lisp.
Scheme
Scheme, created by Guy L. Steele and Gerald Jay Sussman, is the dialect used in SICP.
Three of the most popular implementations are Chicken, GNU Guile, and Racket all of which include a well-designed C API, and FFI.
Niche Lisps
System scripting
- newLISP
- scsh
- LUSH
CUDA & OpenCL
- Harlan