I have been programming in lisp for a while, not as a main language. But i've gotten pretty decent at it. But I was wondering about if it was a legacy language or not.
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Jump to PostHas Lisp ever really been anything more than an academic language with very little real-life applicability?
I know that some software use Lisp-based syntax for their scripting language, and that there are tons of dialects of Lisp, but that's mainly because it's super easy to parse (i.e., people who like …
Jump to PostHas Lisp ever really been anything more than an academic language with very little real-life applicability?
Yes.
Common Lisp and a subset of its ancestors are not academic languages at all. A few people even made money with it.
Scheme is (in particular) the academic lisp.
There …
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Ah Lisp, the Prolog of the America's.
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