Lisps

See also: lisps, and LISPs

English

Noun

Lisps

1. plural of Lisp
   • 1997, Bob Glickstein, Writing GNU Emacs Extensions: Editor Customizations and Creations with Lisp (In a Nutshell Series)‎^[1], "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 85:

     Indeed, a few dialects of Lisp make it an error to call car and cdr on nil. Most Lisps behave like Emacs Lisp in this regard […]

   • 2014 August 26, Colin Jones, Mastering Clojure Macros: Write Cleaner, Faster, Smarter Code‎^[2], Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     When I talk about Lisp, the advice will apply across all the major Lisps (including Clojure, Scheme, and Common Lisp).

   • 2017 July 20, Michael Swaine, “An Interview with Rich Hickey”, in Michael Swaine, editor, Functional Programming: A PragPub Anthology: Exploring Clojure, Elixir, Haskell, Scala, and Swift‎^[3], Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     Lisps have been called functional programming languages, but Clojure embraces that more deeply than do Common Lisp or Scheme.