Common Lisp

Common Lisp is an actively used programming language created in 1984. Common Lisp (CL) is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in ANSI standard document ANSI INCITS 226-1994 (R2004) (formerly X3.226-1994 (R1999)). The Common Lisp HyperSpec, a hyperlinked HTML version, has been derived from the ANSI Common Lisp standard. The Common Lisp language was developed as a standardized and improved successor of Maclisp. Read more on Wikipedia...

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• the Common Lisp website
• the Common Lisp wikipedia page
• Common Lisp first appeared in 1984
• file extensions for Common Lisp include lisp, lsp, l, cl, fasl, asd, ny, podsl and sexp
• See also: lisp, clisp, lispworks, lisp-machine-lisp, scheme, interlisp, clojure, dylan, emacs-lisp, eulisp, islisp, julia, r, cadence-skill, spice-lisp, s-expressions, ascii, unicode, c, pascal, java, autolisp, algol-68, ada, perl, unix, freebsd, linux, solaris, x86-isa, corman-common-lisp, maxima, acl2, poplog, pop-11, prolog, standard-ml, emacs-editor
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Example code from Linguist:

(DEFUN HELLO ()
  (PRINT 'HELLO))

Example code from Wikipedia:

CL-USER > (available-shells)
(#P"/bin/bash" #P"/bin/csh" #P"/bin/ksh" #P"/bin/sh" #P"/bin/tcsh" #P"/bin/zsh")

Last updated July 22nd, 2019