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.

How many primitives does it take to build a LISP machine? Ten, seven or five?

On this site they say there are 10 LISP primitives. The primitives are: atom, quote, eq, car, cdr, cons, cond, lambda, …

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Which Scheme IDE's are there?

I am planning on learning Scheme (by following SICP) and afterwards doing a project with this language. However, I was …

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Why should I use 'apply' in Clojure?

This is what Rich Hickey said in one of the blog posts but I don't understand the motivation in using …

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What is your opinion on Clojure?

What do you guys think about Clojure? I'm thinking of learning it next, currently using Erlang and in general happy …

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Fast Prime Number Generation in Clojure

I've been working on solving Project Euler problems in Clojure to get better, and I've already run into prime number …

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Lisp grammar in yacc

I am trying to build a Lisp grammar. Easy, right? Apparently not. I present these inputs and receive errors... ( 1 1) 23 23 23 ui …

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Programming Scheme(Racket) with VIM - How to get started

recently, I started programming Racket (formerly Scheme) in DrRacket. I quite fast I began to miss all the features of …

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Examples of excellent Common Lisp code?

I've learned enough Common Lisp to be able to muddle my way through writing an application. I've read Seibel's Practical …

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Are functional programming languages suitable for graphics programming?

Just very curious about this, from my own experience , all the graphic programming seems to C or C++ related. Like …

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