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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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What type of problems do you solve using Lisp? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello! Let us have another Friday social topic.

What type of problems do you solve using Lisp? Please share these details while answering:

Which dialect of Lisp do you use?
What problems do you solve?
Why do you choose Lisp to solve these problems?

I have a feeling that this thread might get inundated with too many Emacs Lisp posts about solving personal productivity problems. That's fine. But I suggest posting stuff about other dialects of Lisp too. The more dialects of Lisp (CL, Clojure, Racket, etc.) are discussed here, the better! We want to have a good variety of answers on this thread.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

NB: I have never had the fortune to write Lisp in a professional setup.

For years, I used to use SBCL snippets for a whole set of automation tasks in my daily workflow, like updating git repos in batch, checking failing CI/CD pipelines per repo, organising my music collection, etc.

But gradually I switched to more specialised tools and, yes, Emacs Lisp to do what I needed to do. It just felt more ergonomic in my case.

The last time I seriously used SBCL was to solve some of Project Euler's challenges back in 2018: https://github.com/bahmanm/euler-cl

Nowadays, I've got no non-elisp code left 🙂 🤷‍♂️