Lisp is used in many applications, but mostly not the way CS students learn it. They use Lisp for basic CS concepts. Real Lisp software often looks different. More macros, more object …

Sep 5, 2017 · In Emacs Lisp for example a symbol can have 1) data associated with it AND (at the same time - for the same symbol) 2) code associated with it - depending on the context, …

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Sep 21, 2008 · There are bigger issues, for example common lisp has a more powerful object system, so you can't map it 1:1 to object in the runtime (no MI, for one). This is ok, but leaves …

Just to add, you could also use the (begin exp1 exp2...) syntax to evaluate more than one expression in Lisp sequentially. Using this on an if's branch will have the same effect as using …

Feb 2, 2011 · Often Lisp users develop embedded languages and to make that a bit easier, the Common Lisp standard tries to keep character usage down to a minimum and also provides …

Oct 23, 2022 · An atom is the base case. In classical Lisp (the original language proposed by John McCarthy), an atom is just a distinct unit, that we conventionally designate with a name. …

Feb 3, 2022 · Lisp: How to write an if statement with multiple conditions? Asked 3 years, 8 months ago Modified 3 years, 8 months ago Viewed 2k times

Jan 24, 2017 · I want to extract certain information from the comparison of the information stored in a drawing-table or table object, as you prefer to call it, if the comparison succeeds then …

I'm programming on Ubuntu using GCL. From the documentation on Common Lisp from various sources, I understand that let creates local variables, and setq sets the values of existing …