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.

Replace an item in a list in Common Lisp?

I have a list of things (I'll call it L), an index(N) and a new thing(NEW). If I …

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LET versus LET* in Common Lisp

I understand the difference between LET and LET* (parallel versus sequential binding), and as a theoretical matter it makes perfect …

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Lisp in the real world

I have experimented with Lisp (actually Scheme) and found it to be a very beautiful language that I am interested …

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Which dialect of Lisp should I learn?

I know there are a few different dialects of Lisp. Having decided that learning Lisp would be a new intellectual …

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Please explain some of Paul Graham's points on Lisp

I need some help understanding some of the points from Paul Graham’s What Made Lisp Different. A new concept …

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How do I learn Scheme?

Hey, I'm a relative newbie to programming. I've picked up some very basic Java (File I/O, GUIs, inheritance) and …

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Running a Common Lisp function from a Terminal command prompt

I'm having some difficulty finding an answer to this, so maybe it isn't possible. I'd like the flexibility of being …

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What is ' (apostrophe) in Lisp / Scheme?

I am on day 1 hour 1 of teaching myself Scheme. Needless to say, I don't understand anything. So I'm reading The …

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Haskell, Lisp, and verbosity

For those of you experienced in both Haskell and some flavor of Lisp, I'm curious how "pleasant" (to use a …

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Building a Texas Hold'em playing AI..from scratch

I'm interested in building a Texas Hold 'Em AI engine in Java. This is a long term project, one in …

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