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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 there is one Lisp function/macro/feature that you would like to see in a non-Lisp language, which one would it be? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by cadar@lemmy.ml to c/lisp@lemmy.ml

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This is another Friday social topic. You are aimlessly wandering around a beautiful hilltop by a sea when an angel approaches you from the opposite direction. She is no ordinary angel. She is a Lisp angel! She will grant one Lisp wish to you. Before she can fulfill your wish, she needs this information from you:

Your favorite Lisp dialect.
Your favorite non-Lisp programming language.
Your favorite standard library function/macro/feature from your favorite Lisp dialect that you want to see in your favorite non-Lisp programming language.

Once you tell these 3 things to the angel, she will magically add your chosen feature to your chosen non-Lisp programming language.

What are your answers going to be?

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[–] tentaclius@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Scheme
Zig
(let loop ((...)) (cond ...))

I love how recursive looping reads and unfortunately there aren't many languages implementing this approach.