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A community for the Lisp family of programming languages.

Lisp (historically LISP) is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language. Only Fortran is older, by one year.

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History of Lisp - John McCarthy's history of 12 February 1979.
History of LISP at the Computer Histroy Museum

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If LISP is flexible enough to represent every existing programming language, then why use languages other than LISP? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by Amicchan@lemmy.ml to c/lisp@lemmy.ml

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Lisp is a very flexible language; I don't see why people can't just use LISP instead of other language, since it technically has every feature of every language.

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[–] agarorn@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

Because it is probably very inefficient.

AFAIK most languages are equivalent in the sense that you could theoretically do the exact same things. You could for example write the same programs in C, Java, python, or excel and even minecraft Redstone. The least one however being super inefficient.