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Lisp is a language (but not an esoteric language, just a regular language (or more accurately family of languages (but particularly one single language called Lisp (a.k.a. Common Lisp) that has stuck around these days (and a few other modern implementations such as Scheme, Clojure, newLISP, Emacs Lisp and Hy)) where the language family's members all have lots of brackets, prefix notation and homoiconicity) no matter what it may seem at times) first invented in 1958. It has been criticised for its "excessive" and "infernal" parenthesisation of almost every part of the source code (at times claimed to be "such that all substantial programs end in vast swathes of ), oceans so wide and featureless that the careless reader loses track of both shores" (and indeed one may find before long that they seem to have been turned around by the disorientation: the ) have become ( and one is simply venturing further into the nesting)) but Lisp is also lauded for pioneering many now-ubiquitous features

Lisp - Esolang We are currently working on new rules for what content should and shouldn't be allowed on this website, and are looking for feedback! See Esolang:2026 topicality proposal to view and give feedback on the current draft. Lisp From Esolang Jump to navigation Jump to search This article deals with Lisp as it relates to esoteric programming languages. For more general information, see the Wikipedia article on Lisp . Lisp is a language (but not an esoteric language, just a regular language (or more accurately family of languages (but particularly one single language called Lisp (a.k.a

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