Contrary to popular belief, LISP does not stand for “lots of irritating spurious parenthesis.” However, it is true that people tend to love or hate this venerable programming language. Whichever side ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a post about two things, but they fall under the category of "I'd like to learn language <I>x</I> . . ."<BR><BR>1. I'm about to order <I>ANSI Common Lisp</I> by Paul Graham from Amazon.com. It ...