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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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(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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If the solution is also valid in the dialects separately listed in Rosetta Code, such as Common Lisp and Scheme, then use the <nowiki>{{header|</nowiki>''dialect''<nowiki>}}</nowiki> template so that the task will be listed as solved for that dialect. For example: |
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<nowiki>=={{header|Lisp}} (MacLisp, {{header|Common Lisp}}, {{header|Emacs Lisp}})==</nowiki> |