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A community for the Lisp family of programming languages.
Lisp (historically LISP) is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language. Only Fortran is older, by one year.
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- History of Lisp - John McCarthy's history of 12 February 1979.
- History of LISP at the Computer Histroy Museum
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Emacs is already 55% Lisp, but that just wasn’t good enough 😆
This apparently is for Steel Bank Common Lisp, which I’d never heard of.
SBCL is one of the more popular runtimes for CL as far as I know. I think the big advantage with Lem is that CL is a much better language than Emacs Lisp which is like Js of Lisps. 😂
Yeah… I was rooting for Guile Scheme to replace elisp, but that’s been stalled out like forever https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs
I was just talking about that with a friend the other day. I remembered it was a thing, and then I looked it up and looks like nothing's been happening with that in a while.
@davel @yogthos it seems to be a little known fact that Per Bothner, the author of Kawa Scheme, also developed JEmacs - a variant of Emacs that runs on the JVM.
(I haven't used it though, so I can't say if there's anything substantial missing from it)
A little known fact that someone wrote emacs so it suits the "bloated manatee" name? No, that's something we would have blocked from our minds; and now I need to buy more jaegarmeister to do it again.