Lisp is a huge family of languages. Lisp is a shortening of "list processor" and is composed of [[S-Expression]]s. - [Wikipedia](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)>) # History The first Lisp was conceived in the late 1950s and the first specification was published in 1960. The first full implementation of Lisp was in 1962. It is based on [[Alonzo Church]]'s [[Lambda Calculus]] from 1936, which was published a month before [[Alan Turing]]'s famous [[Turing Machine]] paper was submitted for publication. Turing later showed that Lambda Calculus was equivalent in computing power to the Turing Machine. # Legacy ## Lisps - [[Scheme]] - [[Common Lisp]] - [[Racket]] - [[ZIL]] - [[Emacs Lisp]] - [[GNU Guile]] - [[Clojure]] - [[SectorLisp]] - https://justine.lol/sectorlisp2/ - [[Dune Shell]] - https://github.com/adam-mcdaniel/dune - [[Ribbit]] - https://github.com/udem-dlteam/ribbit - Calcit - https://calcit-lang.org/ - Bob - https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/compiling-scheme-to-webassembly ## Lisp Inspired - [[Dylan (programming language)]] - [[Rebol]] # Resources - http://trycode.io/ (using Racket) - https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ssch17/lists.html ([[Scheme]] documentation)