work on diverse successors to MacLisp: Lisp Machine Lisp (aka ZetaLisp), Spice Lisp, NIL and S-1 Lisp. Common Lisp sought to unify, standardise, and...
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the second-oldest high-level programming language still in common use, after Fortran. Lisp has changed since its early days, and many dialects have existed...
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Kyoto Common Lisp (KCL) is an implementation of Common Lisp by Taichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya, written in C to run under Unix-like operating systems....
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The Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) is the facility for object-oriented programming in ANSI Common Lisp. CLOS is a powerful dynamic object system which...
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Format is a function in Common Lisp that can produce formatted text using a format string similar to the print format string. It provides more functionality...
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The operating systems were written in Lisp Machine Lisp, Interlisp (Xerox), and later partly in Common Lisp. Artificial intelligence (AI) computer programs...
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Emacs Lisp is a Lisp dialect made for Emacs. It is used for implementing most of the editing functionality built into Emacs, the remainder being written...
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Common Lisp is derived from CMUCL. The Scieneer Common Lisp was a commercial derivative from CMUCL. The earliest implementation predates Common Lisp and...
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Technology (MIT) Lisp machines. Lisp Machine Lisp was also the Lisp dialect with the most influence on the design of Common Lisp. Lisp Machine Lisp branched into...
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Symbol (programming) (redirect from Symbol (Lisp))
dictionary). A symbol in Lisp is unique in a namespace (or package in Common Lisp). Symbols can be tested for equality with the function EQ. Lisp programs can generate...
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Embeddable Common Lisp (ECL) is a small implementation of the ANSI Common Lisp programming language that can be used stand-alone or embedded in extant...
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Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) is a free and open-source Common Lisp implementation that features a high-performance native compiler, Unicode support and...
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Scheme (programming language) (redirect from Scheme Lisp)
a significant influence on the effort that led to the development of Common Lisp. The Scheme language is standardized in the official Institute of Electrical...
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Common Lisp is a programming language with an integrated development environment (IDE), developed by Franz Inc. It is a dialect of the language Lisp,...
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VAX LISP was an implementation of Common Lisp for VMS and ULTRIX on 32-bit VAXs. It was the first Common Lisp to be written for non-Lisp machines. It was...
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Generic function (section In Common Lisp Object System)
appropriately. In some systems for object-oriented programming such as the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) and Dylan, a generic function is an entity made...
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"CLHS: About the Common Lisp HyperSpec: Authorship Information". LispWorks. Retrieved 2019-05-01. Steele, Guy L. Jr. (1981). Common Lisp the Language, 2nd...
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S-expression (redirect from Lisp syntax)
(analogous to SQL foreign keys, SGML/XML IDREFs, etc.). Modern Lisp dialects such as Common Lisp and Scheme provide such syntax via datum labels, with which...
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Symbolics (category Lisp (programming language))
This Lisp dialect was called Lisp Machine Lisp at MIT. Symbolics used the name ZetaLisp. Symbolics later wrote new software in Symbolics Common Lisp, its...
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Common Lisp the Language is a reference book by Guy L. Steele about a set of technical standards and programming languages named Common Lisp. The first...
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The Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) is a Common Lisp-based programming interface for creating user interfaces, i.e., graphical user interfaces (GUIs)...
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On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp is a book by Paul Graham on macro programming in Common Lisp. Published in 1993, it is currently out of print...
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Mixin (section In Common Lisp)
forms of a mixin inheritance. Other than Flavors and CLOS (a part of Common Lisp), some languages that use mixins are: Ada (by extending an existing tagged...
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GNU Common Lisp (GCL) is the GNU Project's ANSI Common Lisp compiler, an evolutionary development of Kyoto Common Lisp. It produces native object code...
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Lisp was a computer programming language, a dialect of the Lisp language. It was an object-oriented extension for the Lisp dialect Lisp Machine Lisp,...
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Fortran's intrinsic module iso_fortran_env, corresponds to double precision. Common Lisp provides the types SHORT-FLOAT, SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT and LONG-FLOAT...
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Macintosh Common Lisp (MCL) is an implementation and IDE for the Common Lisp programming language. Various versions of MCL run under the classic Mac OS...
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John McCarthy (computer scientist) (category Lisp (programming language) people)
"artificial intelligence" (AI), developed the programming language family Lisp, significantly influenced the design of the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing...
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Guy L. Steele Jr. (category Lisp (programming language) people)
published Common Lisp the Language (Digital Press; ISBNÂ 0-932376-41-X; 465 pages). This first edition was the original specification of Common Lisp (CLtL1)...
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Practical Common Lisp is an introductory book on the programming language Common Lisp by Peter Seibel. It features a fairly complete introduction to the...
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