Lisp Community

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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.

History

History of Lisp - John McCarthy's history of 12 February 1979.
History of LISP at the Computer Histroy Museum

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founded 5 years ago

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Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp (lem-project.github.io)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@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)