Lisp (or LISP, an acronym for LISt Processing) is a family of interpreted programming languages. Lisp is one of the oldest family of programming languages still used, with modern variants including:
Lisp has a long and varied history.
Expressions in Lisp are called [[s-expressions]], and they look like this:
(+ 1 2 3)
where +
above is a function, called with arguments 1
, 2
, and 3
.
Lisps are simple to implement due to their usage of s-expressions, as s-expressions are just [[ASTs]].
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