The Lisp and Scheme programming languages

Lisp dialects

Lisp, an acronym for List Processing, is simultaneously one of the most modern and one of the oldest and most venerable of programming languages. Its strengths are in its clear, simple structure and its great flexibility. It is often used in research and development, yet it has also been used for huge commercial packages.

• We have a version of Common Lisp available. The entire text of Guy L. Steele's Common Lisp: The Language is also available for browsing over the Web.
• The emacs text editor has a powerful but unique dialect of Lisp built into it. See the tutorial, Programming in Emacs Lisp: An Introduction [PostScript file, 3.2Mb].

Scheme

Scheme is a recent language in the Lisp family that is very popular for instruction and real-world applications.

• We have the Gnu implementation of Scheme, called guile.
• www.schemers.org is a good site for documentation and examples.
• Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days by Dorai Sitaram is an online tutorial.
• Introduction to Scheme by Ken Dickey is a brief text-only tutorial.

John Shipman, john@nmt.edu Last updated: 2007/12/02 04:27:53 UT URL: http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/lang/lisp/homepage.html