Whats so great about Lisp? - Stack Overflow I don't know enough Lisp to say whether it's good or bad It seems like everyone who has used Lisp loves it, yet the most popular languages these days are descended from C So what is it about Lis
What is lisp used for today and where do you think its going? Lisp is used in many applications, but mostly not the way CS students learn it They use Lisp for basic CS concepts Real Lisp software often looks different More macros, more object-oriented, more imperative, lots of low-level stuff,
scheme - Whats the best way to learn LISP? - Stack Overflow Ansi Common Lisp by Paul Graham is a good book I think it might be out of print, so your best bet to get it via Amazon I got the book for a "Natural Language Processing" class I took my sophomore year in college We had to write the programing projects in LISP, and so I needed to learn Lisp quickly The book helped me quite a bit
Newest lisp Questions - Stack Overflow So in Lisp Scheme, there are these 'symbols', which are basically, if I understand correctly, and correct me if I'm wrong, references to variables (not their values)
Why should I learn Lisp? [closed] - Stack Overflow I really feel that I should learn Lisp and there are plenty of good resources out there to help me do it I'm not put off by the complicated syntax, but where in "traditional commercial programming"
LET versus LET* in Common Lisp - Stack Overflow A Lisp compiler can use a devilish trick to implement let* by just making a few tweaks to the compilation strategy for let To compile let*, we can allocate a single environment for all the bindings (a move which would result in incorrect scoping in the interpreter) We leave that environment empty, and add it to the compile-time environment chain
Quicklisp: Unable to load any of the alternatives (libcrypto. so. 1. 1 . . . (update: Most likely, it was the fact that I accidentally installed the 32-bit version of the SBCL on my 64-bit machine, by confusing the x86 mentioned on the SBCL download page for x86_64 (mentioned on the page as AMD64) Most of the issues related to CFFI-loading foreign libraries went away after I installed the AMD64 version, but in case the answer below if useful to some, I'll leave it as