Lisp

Lisp is an actively used programming language created in 1958. Lisp (historically, LISP) is a family of computer 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 in widespread use today. Only Fortran is older, by one year. Read more on Wikipedia...

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• Lisp ranks in the top 1% of languages
• the Lisp wikipedia page
• Lisp first appeared in 1958
• See also: arc, autolisp, clojure, common-lisp, emacs-lisp, eulisp, interlisp, islisp, lfe, newlisp, portable-standard-lisp, racket, rpl, scheme, cadence-skill, spice-lisp, t, information-processing-language, clips, clu, cowsel, dylan, elixir, falcon, forth, haskell, io, ioke, javascript, julia, logo, lua, ml, nim, nu, ops5, perl, pop-2, pop-11, python, r, ruby, scala, swift, smalltalk, tcl, wolfram, fortran, s-expressions, lisp-machine-lisp, openlisp, picolisp, lisp-2, multics, acl2, jvm-vm, yarv, emacs-editor, autocad-app, lilypond, algol, flavors, c, xml
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Example code from Wikipedia:

(defun -reverse (list)
  (let ((return-value '()))
    (dolist (e list) (push e return-value))
    return-value))

Last updated October 20th, 2019