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'''Lisp''' or '''LISP''' (originally an acronym for '''LIS'''t '''P'''rocessing) was one of the first high-level languages, invented in 1958 by John McCarthy. It had many descendants: the two major freestanding dialects still in use today are [[Common Lisp]] and [[Scheme]]. Other dialects of Lisp are used as scripting languages in applications, most notably [[Emacs Lisp]], [[AutoLISP]], and [[Guile]].▼
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▲'''Lisp''' or '''LISP''' (originally an acronym for '''LIS'''t '''P'''rocessing) was one of the first high-level languages, invented in 1958 by John McCarthy. It had many descendants:
(Today, the name is usually written "Lisp" rather than “LISP” among advocates, both because "we have lowercase letters now”, and to make a distinction between modern practical Lisp systems and the popular notion of “oh, LISP, that's where everything is a list or a symbol and you have to use recursion, right?”)
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