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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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What were some of your first technologies/tools? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by cadar@lemmy.ml to c/lisp@lemmy.ml

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Here comes a new Friday social topic!

What was the first computer you ever worked/played on?
What was the first editor you used to write computer programs?
What programming language did you write your first program in?
How many days/months/years after you wrote your first program did you learn Lisp?
What was your first Lisp?
Which editor/IDE do you work with the most today?
What programming languages do you work with the most today?
Which Lisp do you work with the most today?

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[–] okflo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

What was the first computer you ever worked/played on?

Commodore 64

What was the first editor you used to write computer programs?

Commodore Basic lineeditor - followed by my own 6502 machine code editor ;)

What programming language did you write your first program in?

Commodore Basic

How many days/months/years after you wrote your first program did you learn Lisp?

about 25 years - wanted to understand emacs configuration, what finally lead to Common Lisp.

What was your first Lisp?

elisp, followed by Common Lisp

Which editor/IDE do you work with the most today?

the only one and true editor :) GNU emacs

What programming languages do you work with the most today?

Common Lisp (for hobby projects) and elisp - unfortunately I don't do real programming for money, but manage IT projects. Emacs and my own set of elisp helps me to get my work done (and procrastinate).

Which Lisp do you work with the most today?

Common Lisp and elisp

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A C64, I believe.
Turbo Pascal... or whatever their IDE was called.
Turbo Pascal... or whatever the language was called. :-) (But I'm not entirely sure whether QBasic had beaten it by a week-or-so anymore.)
Roughly, 20 years. I (kind of) regret that.
Common Lisp, if we don't accept Python as a Lisp.
GNU Emacs, mostly.
Rust and Go, but that's mostly because Common Lisp still lacks a good integrated compiler/package manager/project management system that doesn't start with "install Quicklisp, then...". Roswell just does not work on most systems on which I had tried it.
Common Lisp.