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European Lisp Symposium
Videos of the talks given at the European Lisp Symposium
ELS 2016, May 9-10, AGH University, Krakow, Poland
Escape from the Heap: Low-Level Programming in Common Lisp
History of LISP
“The goal of this project is to collect, preserve, and present source code, design documents, and other materials concerning the original LISP I/1.5 system, and as many of its follow-ons as possible. LISP was one of the earliest high-level programming languages and introduced many ideas such as garbage collection, recursive functions, symbolic expressions, and dynamic type-checking; it is still in use. This is a project of the Computer History Museum‘s Software Preservation Group. The editor appreciates comments, suggestions, and donations of additional materials…”
Lisp in 3 words
“I’m not the first one to complain about the weight of syntax rules nor am I the first one to claim Lisp syntax is simple. When trying to explain it to colleagues, it appeared brevity would be my friend.
I found a nice formulation. But it’s just a useful lie…”
http://www.vagrant-coder.com/articles/english/Lisp-in-3-words.html
Using the newLISP FFI
“One of newLisp’s out-of-the-box features is its foreign function interface. It is simple to use, requiring only a minimal knowledge of C and a willingness to read documentation…”
Is LISP still useful in today’s world? Which version is most used?
“I try to teach myself a new programming language in regular intervals of time. Recently, I’ve read how Lisp and its dialects are at the complete opposite end of the spectrum from languages like C/C++, which made me curious enough to know more about it. However, two things are unclear to me, and I’m looking for guidance on them :
- Is LISP still practiced/used in todays world, or is it a legacy language like FORTRAN/COBOL ? I mean, apart from maintaining existing code, is it used on new projects at all ?
- What is the most widely used dialect ? I came across Scheme and Common Lisp as the 2 most prevalent dialects, and wanted your opinion as to which is the most favored/useful one to learn – and would be immensely gratified if you can suggest any resources for a rank beginner to start from.
While eager to learn a language which is fundamentally different from the procedural languages I’m used to, I don’t want to invest undue effort in something if its totally obsolete – I’d still learn it if it was professionally “dead”, but only with an academic perspective…”
