Top "Lisp" questions

Lisp is a family of general purpose programming languages, influenced by the lambda calculus, and with the ability to manipulate source code as a data structure.

Cons element to list vs cons list to element in Scheme

What's the difference between using cons to combine an element to a list and using cons to combine a list …

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Error with define in Racket

I just discovered Racket a few days ago, and I'm trying to get more comfortable with it by writing a …

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How does "Cons" work in Lisp?

I was studying Lisp and I am not experienced in Lisp programming. In a part of my studies I encountered …

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Lisp as a Scripting Language in a C++ app

Hey, I've been looking at the possibility of adding a scripting language into my framework and I heard about Lisp …

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(Random) in Common Lisp Not So Random?

Okay, final question and I'll have finished my number guessing game in Common Lisp! :D Whenever the game starts (or …

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Can a language have Lisp's powerful macros without the parentheses?

Can a language have Lisp's powerful macros without the parentheses?

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Is Haskell a Lisp?

I've been reading The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming by Doets and Eijck 2004. It seems to be a …

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LISP cons in python

Is there an equivalent of cons in Python? (any version above 2.5) If so, is it built in? Or do I …

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Porting Common Lisp code to Clojure

How practical is it to port a Common Lisp application to Clojure? To be more specific, what features exist in …

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Which language would you use for the self-study of SICP?

I've caught the bug to learn functional programming for real. So my next self-study project is to work through the …

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